Belfast woman given £1 instead of loan after dad's death from contaminated blood

A grieving daughter has described how her bank handed her a £1 coin instead of a loan after her family was left destitute when her father died from contaminated blood.

“I remember going to the bank one day and just begging for help. And they handed me a pound coin,” she told the PA news agency. Mr Kerr had severe haemophilia type A and was co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C during his treatment. Ms Nelson was 21 when her father died from Aids in 2000. “I honestly don’t know how we got through it, day-by-day I suppose, there were just times when it was really, really hard.”

“That should be the last thing someone is thinking about when they are coming to the end of their life, especially when this isn’t their fault – they’re sick through for something that was done to them, not the the luck of the draw, this is from something that had been given to them. Tens of thousands of people were infected with contaminated blood or blood products between the 1970s and early 1990s.

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