Metro – ‘Chilling’ Verdict on NHS Catastrophe: 40 years of bloody cover up

The Metro leads on the report into the infected blood scandal which found there was a “pervasive” cover-up to hide the truth. The report found the scandal – which claimed 3,000 lives and affected 30,000 – could have been avoided and was covered up for decades, the paper writes. It pictures people embracing after the release of the report following a five-year inquiry.

The paper describes it as “forty years of bloody cover-up” and notes that it could have been avoided and was covered up for decades.