More than 50 boys were infected with HIV after being secretly enrolled in a trial of "polluted" blood products, the Infected Blood Inquiry has been told.

The boys were all pupils at Treloars College in Hampshire, a specialist disability school that offered places to haemophiliacs in the 1970s and 1980s.

Of more than 80 haemophiliacs at the school who were given contaminated blood products as part of their treatment, just 16 are still alive.

Ade Goodyear, one of the survivors, told the inquiry his records show he was among a group of 50 boys enrolled in an eight-month trial of a blood plasma.

He said neither he or his parents were informed that he had been selected for the trial of a new blood plasma product made by US pharmaceutical manufacturer Speywood Laboratories.


The blood products, used to prevent the bleeding to which haemophiliacs are prone, were dispensed in a purpose-built NHS-run clinic at the school.

"I believe everyone in that trial became infected with HIV," he told the inquiry.

"We don't know for certain if it was in the first eight months of the trial, but it was definitely in the American products, because I was very sick from that batch."

Mr Goodyear, who was infected with HIV and Hepatitis C, told the inquiry that after the trial he almost only received American blood products, and a nurse at the clinic told him these products were responsible.

"She told us there was one batch that infected all of us boys. She didn't mean one batch, she meant there was one line of products."

Almost 5,000 people have been infected with HIV and Hepatitis C by infected blood products used to treat haemophilia, or from transfusions of contaminated whole blood used in the NHS.

Nearly 3,000 of them have died.

The majority of infected haemophiliacs received blood products imported from the United States made with blood sourced from prisoners, drug users and sex workers.

Mr Goodyear said his doctor at the school was wracked with guilt after discovering that the blood products were contaminated.

He described discovering the doctor weeping in his kitchen after being taken with another boy to his house for lunch.

"He said to us 'we f***** up, we messed up.'"

He called on the inquiry to seek accountability for the decisions that led to so many of his peers being infected.

"Who made that man [the doctor] push HIV through our veins, knowing what he knew? Who directed him to do it? It guaranteed that we could get it, for eight months."