These men were sent to this life-changing school in the rural Hampshire area as orphans
The school was created to give these boys the closest thing to a typical childhood imaginable, complete with an NHS clinic on campus.
Rather, AIDS and hepatitis claimed the lives of 75 of their classmates in this incident. There were only 58 students who made it out alive.
The haemophilic youngsters in this case were part of covert studies to test blood products that might be created to treat people with blood clotting issues, a fact that neither the boys nor their parents knew about.
However, the product known as Factor 8 was being imported from America using drug dealers, sex workers, and convicts’ blood.