大象传媒

Michael Rudkin and Suresh Vaghela are two ordinary men who were caught up in two extraordinary national scandals.

Their stories are so different, yet they have so many shared experiences, with both of their lives changed irreparably through no fault of their own.

Mr Rudkin lost his job as a sub-postmaster in Ibstock, Leicestershire, and his union position, when his wife Susan Rudkin was wrongly convicted of stealing money from the Post Office. Her conviction was finally overturned in April 2021. The Post Office scandal has been described as "the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK history".

Mr Vaghela, from Bushby in Leicestershire, is among more than 30,000 people who were infected with HIV and hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood products from 1970 to 1991. Mr Vaghela's brother Praful died from Aids in 1995, aged 33. He too had contracted HIV from contaminated Factor VIII. Mr Vaghela has spent decades campaigning for the truth to come out.

They had never met, but the 大象传媒 introduced the pair to one another, to enable a discussion on how their lives had been impacted. Among the topics they discussed were being shunned by their communities, having to rebuild their lives and facing the future.

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