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Treloar College Unveils Memorial to Boys Infected With HIV and Hepatitis
The memorial honors 122 haemophiliac pupils after an inquiry found they were treated as objects of research and exposed to risky blood products.
- A new memorial was unveiled at the Lord Mayor Treloar School and College in Hampshire, featuring a statue of two embracing pupils to commemorate boys infected with HIV and hepatitis.
- The Infected Blood Public Inquiry concluded pupils, known as the Treloar Boys, were treated as "objects of research" without their knowledge by NHS clinicians who understood the transmission risks.
- Of 122 haemophiliac pupils who attended between 1970 and 1987, only around 30 were alive when the inquiry published its report in 2024; Adrian Goodyear recalled leaving school with "death sentences."
- Survivors Steve Nicholls and Richard Warwick view the memorial as a "symbol of comradeship, friendship and support," helping them honor deceased friends while confronting their own survivor's guilt.
- Rachel Halford, chief executive of the Hepatitis C Trust, noted that decades later no one has been prosecuted, while victims urge the Government to reconsider the £60,000 compensation sum.
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Great Yorkshire RadioInfected blood scandal: Memorial to haemophiliac children infected from experimental treatments
Most of the boys given experimental blood products while at Lord Mayor's Treloar's College during the 1970s and '80s were infected with HIV or hepatitis, a public inquiry found.
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