Proposed compensation for victims of “unethical testing” at a college, leaving them with HIV and hepatitis, has been branded “ridiculous” by a charity. Between the 1970s and early 1990s more than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis after being given contaminated blood and blood products in what was dubbed the worst treatment disaster in NHS history. More than £2bn has now been paid in compensation to victims of the infected blood scandal. However, a charity has raised “profound concerns” about an element of the payouts for people who were victims of “unethical research”. Pupils at the Lord Mayor’s Treloar’s College in Hampshire, who were undergoing haemophilia treatment, were also experimented on without their knowledge by NHS clinicians, who knew the dangers it posed. The Infected Blood Public Inquiry’s report, published in May 2024, found that boys with the disorder who attended the school were treated as “objects for research” and were given “multiple, riskier” treatments. They have been offered a one-off £15,000 payment on top of ongoing support, with a …