Alan Kirkham, 77, from Hellesdon, was infected with Hepatitis C after a blood transfusion in 1983, during an operation on his ankles to fight his arthritis.

The father-of-five is one of some 30,000 victims of the infected blood scandal, where health service failings between the 1970s and early 1990s saw hundreds of people infected with hepatitis C and HIV.

Alan Kirkham (Image: Denise Bradley)

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