Victims of infected blood scandal will each receive £100 000 compensation

Around 4000 victims of the UK’s infected blood scandal will each receive an interim compensation payment of £100 000 (€118 000; $120 000) after decades of campaigning, the government has announced.

The tax-free payments will go to those who have been infected with HIV or hepatitis C and to the bereaved partners of those who have died, and this will not affect …