The Sunday Times has campaigned for decades on behalf of the families who lost loved ones to NHS experiments. Weeks before compensation was finally promised, we told some of their stories and issued a call to action
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.
Tens of thousands of people in the UK were infected with deadly viruses after they were given contaminated blood and blood products between the 1970s and early 1990s.