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    ‘The bank gave my family a £1 coin after our father’s death from infected blood’

    by Ella Pickover May 12, 2024 3 minutes

    A grieving daughter has described how her bank handed her a £1 coin instead of a loan after her family was left destitute when her father died from contaminated blood.

    Neil Kerr, a former civil servant, contracted HIV and hepatitis C from infected blood products which were given to him to treat his haemophilia – a blood clotting disorder.

    After his death, his family were turfed out of their home, their car was repossessed and they didn’t know where the next meal was going to come from.

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