Charity profited from dying HIV patients via punishing equity deals

Clair Walton marries Bryan, two years before doctors told him he had been infected with HIV (Image: Claire Walton)

A charity created to support ­victims of an NHS scandal that left nearly 3,000 people dead was ­making a profit from dying patients.

The Macfarlane Trust was set up in 1988 by the Government to help patients with haemophilia who had been infected with HIV from contaminated blood.