A Coventry campaigner is waiting for answers in the blood scandal report

Jason Evans from Coventry lost his father to infected blood when he was just four years old

A Coventry campaigner has said he is waiting for answers and justice before the final report into the infected blood scandal is published.

An estimated 3,000 people died as a result of infected blood products or transfusions in the 1970s and 80s.

Jason Evans from Coventry lost his father in 1993 aged four after he was infected with HIV and hepatitis and Jason now runs the Factor 8 campaign group.

Jason said: “It means everything, to get on the record that what happened should not have happened and that it was preventable and should have been prevented – that’s really the main goal.

“There has been wrongdoing and the chairman of the inquiry Sir Brian Langstaff said the same thing earlier this year. There is no doubt that the final report will be very critical to many people and organizations.”

The government called it “A terrible tragedy that should never have happened” and said it had paid more than £400 million in interim compensation payments to victims’ estates.

Jason said: “There are parents who have lost children, children who have lost their parents. We have people whose entire families have been infected and died as a result. Just when I think I’ve heard the worst story imaginable, there’s another one.”

Campaign groups say a new treatment designed to treat haemophilia has been made by pooling plasma from tens of thousands of people, leaving it infected with viruses including hepatitis and HIV.

Jason said: “The fundamental finding that we would like to see is that factor 8 concentrates should not have been approved for patient use until they were heat treated and made safe.”

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