Cash for your house: tainted blood victim fund 'demanded home equity' in return for financial support

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A husband dying from aids and his infected wife were forced to sign over part of their home to the Government fund set up to help victims in return for financial support, an Inquiry has heard.

Clair Walton married severe haemophiliac Bryan in 1983 but within four years they had both been diagnosed with HIV after he had contracted the virus from contaminated blood products.

 

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