Blood service collected donations from UK prisons despite infection risk warnings

As the infected blood inquiry prepares to publish its final report, Sky News looks at how blood was regularly collected from high-risk environments like prisons - and how some local authorities missed chances to stop it.

Janice Whitehorn was infected with Hepatitis C from her mother Daphne who had contracted it decades earlier after receiving a blood transfusion.

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