A £15,000 payout to former school pupils infected with HIV and other viruses as part of clinical trials has been branded "insulting". 

Infected blood scandal victim Richard Warwick said the sum is a "kick in the teeth" and is now considering taking legal advice. 

Victims are set to receive up to £2.7 million each with a £10,000 “unethical research” fee in addition with former pupils at Lord Mayor’s Treloar’s College in Alton being offered a higher award of £15,000.

The school played host to testing on boys undergoing treatment for haemophilia despite NHS doctors knowing the dangers it posed, infecting students like Richard and Gary Webster from Eastleigh.

But Mr Warwick said he did not know “where they plucked the figure from” and that it failed to reflect the gravity of a case that was “perhaps a breach of the Nuremberg (code)”.

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“We all think it is derisory and insulting. It is unbelievable and unfathomable where they got this figure from. It’s a kick in the teeth.

“We are considering taking legal advice.”

A yearly instalment for cases where victims were subjected to unethical research would have been closer to what they had been expecting, Mr Warwick said.

Mr Warwick was infected with HIV and hepatitis B after receiving blood products at Treloar’s as part of medical treatment for haemophilia, which he was diagnosed with at three years old.

It comes after the Government announced updates to the compensation scheme on Friday, which included confirmation that victims will be given support payments for life.

Payouts under the multibillion-pound plan will start by the end of the year for survivors, and by next year for affected people such as family members under a second set of regulations.

Claims for those who have already died – of which there are more than 3,000 – because of the disaster can be made through their estate.

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On top of compensation, those who were used for research without their knowledge will also be eligible for a £10,000 payment, or £15,000 for those infected during Treloar’s scandal of the 1970s and 80s.

It comes after senior barrister and interim chairman of the compensation authority Sir Robert Francis KC made 74 proposals for the rollout of the scheme, of which the Government accepted the vast majority.

Some five recommendations will not be implemented, including a suggestion to uprate support payments beyond Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation.