Victims ‘vindicated’ after blood scandal report

However, campaigners also said the government’s response to the report was a crucial next step.

“We’ve had too many apologies, we’ve had too many sorrys, they now need to act,” Ms Jones said, adding that the government needed to make progress on finding out the exact numbers of people affected and registering victims for compensation.

Other campaigners, while welcoming the report and hoping it would prompt reforms, said they may never feel a full sense of justice.

“I’m not sure if you can ever ask people to move on from this, because you cannot obliterate and forget the horrors of what’s happened over the last 30 years,” said Colette Wintle, from Lower Broadheath in Worcestershire.

Ms Wintle outlined in her public inquiry submission how being infected with hepatitis had led her to develop cirrhosis of the liver, forced her to retire at the age of 38, and affected her relationship with her family.

“I’ve had to give up the best years of my life, as a victim of the scandal,” she said.