None of the NHS scandals I have written about for decades matches the scale of tragedy and the callous deceit in the tainted blood affair, writes Ian Birrell

Colin Smith, a boy who had developed a bruise on his knee a few months after his birth, was the first case I wrote about. This indicated that he had inherited haemophilia.

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