Memorial unveiled at Treloar's College to honor haemophilia boys infected with HIV and hepatitis

A bronze memorial has been installed at Lord Mayor’s Treloar’s College, a boarding school in Hampshire where haemophiliac boys were given experimental blood products during the 1970s and 1980s. The sculpture depicts two pupils, one with a sling and another with a cane, locked in an embrace, and carries the inscription “Remembering 122 haemophiliac pupils of Treloar’s. Infected as children, victims of unethical research.”

The Infected Blood Public Inquiry’s 2024 report concluded that the children were treated as “objects of research” and that clinicians knowingly exposed them to contaminated plasma. Survivors such as Adrian Goodyear, Gary Webster and Steve Nicholls described the lifelong impact of the infections and welcomed the memorial as a reminder of the tragedy. Legal and advocacy voices, including Des Collins of Collins Solicitors and Rachel Halford of the Hepatitis C Trust, called for accountability and higher compensation for the victims.