From Ann Wills

D. Mail 22.6.19  “TAINTED BLOOD WAS MASS MURDER - I’LL DIE BEFORE I SEE JUSTICE”  by Ben Spencer, Medical Correspondent.

A victim of the contaminated blood scandal will die before he sees justice, the public inquiry heard yesterday.  Peter Burney, 60, one of 7,500 people infected after receiving NHS blood, said he found out this week that he will die within 2 years, if not before.  In a statement to the Infected Blood Inquiry, he accused the Dept of Health of committing “mass murder” & then covering it up.  Referring to the Dept of Health he added  “(You are) a bunch of lying, murdering criminals who have stood by & watched a victim die every 96 hours, without any kind of remorse, knowing that many of these victims are dying in poverty & leaving 1,000s of affected families in poverty, & having to rely on the means-tested handouts from the very people who covered up this mass murder - the Dept of Health.”   Mr Burney from Manchester, has been married for 40 years & had to give up work due to ill-health caused by the infected blood.   He said one of the hardest things about being given a terminal diagnosis this week was having to break the news to his 3 grandchildren.  The inquiry also heard from Ann Dorricott, whose husband Mike Dorricott died aged 47, in 2015 because of the NHS infected blood he was given.

He said before he died “I won’t be there for my wife & 2 daughters.  I won’t get to walk them down the aisle…  My wife will be on her own. We have had years of pain & anguish as a result of the actions taken by previous governments.”

Ann