‘The bank gave my family a £1 coin after our father’s death from infected blood’
A grieving daughter has described how she was handed a £1 coin from a bank 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
