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Sky News and Channel 4 reported on the unveiling of a memorial to haemophiliac pupils infected with HIV and hepatitis at Lord Mayor Treloar College in Hampshire. Both channels said 122 boys were treated at the school during the 1970s and 1980s, and that only around 30 were still alive when the Infected Blood Inquiry published its report in 2024. They reported that the boys were infected through blood products or clotting factor treatments and that the inquiry found they had been treated as objects of research and experimented on without their knowledge. The memorial was described as a bronze statue of two pupils embracing, with Sky News saying it showed one pupil with a cane and one with a sling. Sky News reported that the statue's inscription remembered 122 haemophiliac pupils of Treloar's as infected as children and victims of unethical research, and quoted inquiry chair Brian Langstaff saying the disaster was not an accident. Sky News also reported that survivors had received £60,000 in compensation, that there were calls for this to be increased, and that crime reports had been filed while police considered whether prosecutions should follow. Channel 4 reported that the statue had been recommended by the Infected Blood Inquiry and that there were continuing calls for criminal prosecutions. It placed the Treloar cases in a wider infected blood context, reporting that more than 30,000 people in the UK were infected through blood products and more than 3,000 died, and that the tragedy was caused by clotting factor imported from America donated by prisoners and drug users who were themselves infected. It also reported that Treloar's school had subsequently apologised and recognised that the treatments were unethical and wrong.
Key Claims by Channel
| Claim |  |  |
|---|---|---|
| Reported by all 2 channels | ||
| Around 30 of the Treloar's boys were still alive when the infected blood inquiry reported in 2024. | Reported by Channel 4 | |
| A memorial was unveiled at Lord Mayor Treloar College in Hampshire to honour haemophiliac pupils infected with HIV and hepatitis. | Reported by Channel 4 | Reported by Sky News |
| 122 haemophiliac boys were treated at Lord Mayor Treloar College during the 1970s and 1980s. | Reported by Channel 4 | Reported by Sky News |
| The boys were infected with HIV and hepatitis through infected blood products or clotting factor treatments, including clotting factor imported from America donated by infected prisoners and drug users. | Reported by Channel 4 | Reported by Sky News |
| The boys were treated as objects of research and experimented on without their knowledge. | Reported by Channel 4 | Reported by Sky News |
| Crime reports were filed and police were considering whether to prosecute, while there were continuing calls for criminal prosecutions. | Reported by Channel 4 | Reported by Sky News |
| Only on one channel | ||
| A memorial commemorates 122 haemophiliac pupils at Treloar's who were infected as children, which the infected blood inquiry called unethical research. | Not reported by Channel 4 | |
| Survivors received £60,000 in compensation, with calls for an increase, and crime reports were filed as police consider whether to prosecute. | Not reported by Channel 4 | |
| The memorial is a bronze statue showing two pupils embracing, with one pupil using a cane and one using a sling. | Not reported by Channel 4 | Reported by Sky News |
| Inquiry chair Brian Langstaff was quoted as saying the disaster was not an accident. | Not reported by Channel 4 | Reported by Sky News |
| Survivors have been given £60,000 in compensation, with calls for that to be increased. | Not reported by Channel 4 | Reported by Sky News |
| The Infected Blood Inquiry, which published its final report in 2024, recommended the memorial. | Not reported by Sky News | |
| More than 30,000 people in the UK were infected through blood products, and more than 3,000 died. | Not reported by Sky News | |
| Treloar's school apologised and recognised that the treatments were unethical and wrong. | Reported by Channel 4 | Not reported by Sky News |
| NHS clinicians knew the dangers when infections emerged in late 1984, and the boys were then told it had been an unavoidable accident. | Reported by Channel 4 | Not reported by Sky News |
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