Mr Nicholls, 58, who attended the school from 1976 to 1983 and now has hepatitis A, B and C, said that more than 70 former Treloar pupils have died since their time at the school and that those still alive felt “survivors’ guilt”.
Mr Webster, 59, who went to the school from 1975 to 1983 and now has HIV and hepatitis B and C, said the school had a discipline system in which pupils received a “black mark” if they missed an injection or other treatment.
Richard Warwick, Gary Webster, Steve Nicholls and Adrian Goodyear all attended the Lord Mayor Treloar School and College in Hampshire in the 1970s and 80s, which at the time was a boarding school for children with haemophilia, an inherited disorder where the blood does not clot properly.
This sum has previously been described as a “kick in the teeth” by former pupils, but while the legal claims could result in the former pupils being awarded further compensation, Mr Warwick said the battle was “about getting some form of accountability for the wrongdoings that children had to endure”.
Four men who claim they were “guinea pigs” at a school where pupils received medical treatments using contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 80s have said that they were “failed” by the institution.
