News Outrage as leading medic supports HIV doctor after infecting 1,000 people EXCLUSIVE: Dr Christopher Ludlam said Dr Jean-Pierre Allain should keep his job - despite 1,243 people being infected with HIV through his Factor VIII blood product in the 1980s Share People were unknowingly infected with HIV during a blood treatment programme (file photo) (Image: Getty) Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - daily news Subscribe We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid Email

The head of the UK’s Haemophilia Doctor’s Organisation told public health chiefs that a medic convicted of lying about HIV-infected blood was a man of “high integrity”.

Dr Christopher Ludlam said Dr Jean-Pierre Allain should keep his job in a letter to the head of the UK National Blood Authority.

It came after the Frenchman, who was director of the East Anglian Regional Blood Transfusion Service, was convicted.

Dr Ludlam’s actions will be probed at the inquiry into 1,243 people who were infected with HIV through the Factor VIII blood product in the UK in the 1980s. Read More