While I agree that the tribunal provided a valuable forum, this was only a side issue for haemophiliacs. They wanted the truth, as is clear from the authentic voice of those who lived through this nightmare. On 2 May 2000 Ms Karen Stevens told the tribunal about her father Jerome who contracted HIV from infected factor 8 and subsequently died of AIDS in February 1993. When asked by counsel what she hoped to obtain from the tribunal she replied that she wanted her father back but she realised that was not possible. In these circumstances she wanted answers to what had happened so that she could put the ghosts of the past to rest. I am afraid she cannot do so.