My mum and dad died just days apart... I was just nine, says heartbroken daughter of infected blood...

Her father, Stephen, was a haemophiliac who developed Aids after being given contaminated blood. He, in turn, infected Lauren's mother Barbara with the deadly disease.

Instead, she was forced to move away from her home in Kintbury, Berkshire, to stay with relatives who, she told the inquiry into the blood scandal, made her feel 'like a burden'. She was able to visit her siblings just three times a year and felt 'bereaved' all over again when she had to leave them.

Lauren's mother and father would indeed be proud, given how much their little girl – against all odds – has achieved. Chairman of the infected blood inquiry Sir Brian Langstaff with victims and campaigners outside Central Hall in Westminster today Read More 'No sense of victory': Heartbreaking victims of the infected blood scandal say their whole lives have been overshadowed by agony as inquiry report finally vindicates them So great was the shame at the time – it was not uncommon for Aids sufferers to have obscenities daubed on their homes – that Lauren was instructed never to mention to anyone at her new school how her parents died.

In 2017 while watching the Panorama documentary, Contaminated Blood: The Search for Truth, she discovered that her parents had been among 2000 patients who had died, or become seriously ill, as a result of infected blood.

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