Infected Blood Inquiry: Couple who were shunned and abused as son lay dying hoping for 'justice'

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The long-awaited report into the infected blood scandal will be released on Monday. Colin and Jan Smith, whose beloved son died aged just seven, hope it will lead to some accountability and help shed light on why so many innocent lives were lost.

Colin Smith carries a small suitcase into the dining room of their Newport home and lays it flat on the table in the centre of the room. He pops open both latches. His wife Jan reaches inside and pulls out a sky blue child's blanket. She holds it close to her face, closes her eyes and inhales deeply. 'It still smells of him,' she says, softly. 'This is the blanket he was wrapped in when he died.

You treat a chimp once, you can follow these children throughout their lives. And that's what was going on. 'And this was going on from the '70s. Colin was born in 1982. Yet they still infected him. How do you justify that?' His mother said that they trusted the doctors at the time and never questioned their son's treatment. 'Just when we think back - at the time no, we didn't. But when we think back, it was just blood tests. Blood tests, blood tests, blood tests.

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