A memorial at Lord Mayor Treloar College in Hampshire honors 122 boys with haemophilia who attended from 1970 to 1987. The 2024 inquiry said very few escaped infection after receiving experimental blood products and found pupils were used in research without their knowledge.
The inquiry found that from 1977, research at the school was conducted on a scale it said appeared unparalleled elsewhere. It concluded children were given commercial clotting-factor concentrates known to carry higher infection risks, sometimes unnecessarily instead of safer alternatives, and that healthcare professionals knew blood products could transmit viruses.
Only around 30 of the 122 pupils were still alive when the inquiry published its main report in 2024. The Hepatitis C Trust’s chief executive said no one had been prosecuted for what was done to the boys, urged their police reports to be handled thoroughly and urgently, and called on the government to reconsider the £60,000 compensation amount.
