Retribution, Part 1
Bed of Lies
The Telegraph
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
A letter leads to a lawsuit – and a big development in our story. After years of feeling silenced, British survivors are making their voices heard. But will those accountable finally listen?
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. Podcasts. |
| 0:07.3 | Hello. Hi, Des, it's Cara. |
| 0:13.4 | Hello, Kara. It's good to talk to you because we have now got some progress. |
| 0:18.4 | Des Collins asks me to call him. He's the lawyer from Watford with the |
| 0:22.6 | watery eyes. He represents British survivors of the infected blood scandal. And he's got news. |
| 0:29.3 | Proceedings are going to be issued against Troll School. The Lord Mayor Trelor College. It's the |
| 0:35.7 | boarding school in Hampshire, where a lot of children with hemophilia went. |
| 0:39.8 | So the pupil is suing the school? |
| 0:42.8 | Yes. |
| 0:43.4 | Sounds like quite a big development. |
| 0:45.6 | It is a big development. |
| 0:47.2 | It's one which has been sitting in the sidelines for some time. |
| 0:52.5 | New evidence has come out in the inquiry since I started making this series of bed of lies. |
| 0:58.0 | Evidence I featured in the second episode about the experimentation on pupils at Trelaw's school who were on Factor 8. |
| 1:05.0 | And it's only now that the victims have reached a point in their own mind that enough is enough, it has to be done, |
| 1:12.9 | and if it's not done now, then it'll be too late. |
| 1:15.3 | They've been through their lives carrying this burden, but at the end of the day, they chose |
| 1:26.9 | one to head the action up. |
| 1:29.7 | And that's Gary Webster. He's quite happy for his name to go forward. |
| 1:39.3 | Gary Webster was atrolours with the other old boys I've been speaking to. |
| 1:44.2 | I call him next. |
| 1:48.5 | What's made you want to take this action now? |
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