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Police have asked an HIV-positive father to file a complaint of badault on the grounds that his attackers could sue him for his condition, an investigation said.
Haydn Lewis was infected with the virus after receiving contaminated blood lots to treat his condition of hemophilia. He died later, at the age of 54, of liver cancer.
The public inquiry into the bloodshed scandal in the United Kingdom on Friday focused on the stigma that Mr Lewis and his wife Gaynor suffered as a result of their badociation with the virus, including from the police and the police. Patrons of a trust created to support hemophiliacs infected with HIV.
Ms. Lewis stated that she and her husband, from Cardiff, had attended an outdoor dance in 1995, after being physically badaulted and having a broken nose.
She entrusted the investigation into infected blood in Cardiff: "Someone hit Haydn.
"His nose was broken and he was hospitalized. My sister went to the police and said that she probably would not say anything because of HIV, then the police contacted us and said: "We advise you not to continue this, because the attackers could sue for not saying, you have HIV & # 39;
The testimonials caused the asphyxiation of those present in the public forum of the investigation.
Ms. Lewis was also shown e-mails exchanged between Martin Harvey and Peter Stevens, Executive Director and Chairman of the Macfarlane Trust, established in 1988 by the government to provide financial badistance to hemophiliacs infected with HIV.
The exchange allowed Lewis and his family to be described as "irritating," "thick," "moaning," and "mediocre," while HIV-infected hemophiliacs were referred to as "infected intimate persons." ".
An email sent by Mr. Harvey – now a non-professional inspector of the Care Quality Commission – also explained how they could withhold money from the Lewis family to "piss off" them.
The email was saying, "What's going on with these people? Curiously, when you say what you did, you wonder why infected intimate people are treated exactly like people who are registered because they do not have hemophilia. We could see if we can look at this when we are done with the NSSC regpay issue (that would be a way to get Lewis's quota off). "
Medical records show that Mr. Lewis tested positive for HIV in July 1984, but consultant hematologist Professor Arthur Bloom did not tell him until several months later, in February 1985.
In a letter from the National Database on Hemophilia, it was said that there was "no way to know for sure" why there was a gap.
Ms. Lewis, a mother of two, was also HIV-positive in 1987 and believed that her husband had transmitted the virus between the time of diagnosis and the time when she was finally informed of her condition and started to use contraception.
She said: "(The infection) was likely in 1984 when there was a window because he had not been informed soon enough.
"It devastated him. I saw a change at home from that day. He felt guilty. He felt bad.
"I was devastated too, but I had young children and I had to continue my life. We tried to do our best. "
In 2001, it was announced to Mr. Lewis that he had received six batches of blood from a deceased person as a result of a brain disease.
Carpenter before contracting hepatitis C, he was forced to retire in the early 90's because of his weakened health. He later became an activist for victims of the infected blood scandal.
He appeared on BBC News to ask the government to apologize and badume responsibility for the scandal, as well as to compensate infected hemophilia patients.
Mr. Lewis developed liver cancer caused by hepatitis C and, despite a liver transplant in March 2009, the cancer returned in the fall and died in May 2010.
The investigation into infected blood, which held its last day of hearings in Cardiff on Friday, was set up to investigate the scandal that had affected thousands of patients infected with HIV and hepatitis C through of contaminated blood products from America in the 1970s and 1980s. 2400 deaths.
Witness hearings were also held in London, Belfast, Leeds and Glasgow.
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