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Memorial for pupils contaminated with HIV and hepatitis
The memorial has been installed at the college, near Alton, Hampshire
A memorial has been created at a school where boys were experimented on and infected with HIV and hepatitis.
During the 1970s and 1980s, the Lord Mayor Treloar School and College in Hampshire offered specialist care for children with haemophilia but pupils received medical treatments using contaminated blood products.
Of the 122 pupils with haemophilia that attended the school, only about 30 were still alive when the Infected Blood Public Inquiry published its report into the scandal in 2024.
It highlighted how "very few" of the pupils with haemophilia that attended the school between 1970 and 1987 "escaped being infected".
It said children were treated as "objects for research" and were experimented on without their knowledge by NHS clinicians, who knew the dangers it posed.
Survivors Richard Warwick, Adrian Goodyear, Steve Nicholls and Gary Webster attended the unveiling of the memorial
The memorial installed at the college, near Alton, Hampshire, depicts two pupils, one with a sling and and another holding a cane, embracing each other.
Adrian Goodyear, 55, who first attended Treloar's when he was nine, said: "We couldn't believe the place we were looking at. Rolling country hills, swimming pools, canoes, a Jacobian mansion. It was just remarkable at first.
Goodyear was infected with hepatitis and HIV while at the school.