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‘There was no voice for any of the victims’ … Lenny Royal. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian
There’s no guide book for how to deal with this,” says Lenny Royal on his life since being maliciously infected with HIV. Last year his attacker, Daryll Rowe, became the first person to be jailed for using his illness as a weapon by deliberately infecting Royal and four other men with the virus, and exposing five others to it. Read More