The memorial installed at the college, near Alton, Hampshire, depicts two pupils, one with a sling and and another holding a cane, embracing each other.<\/p>\n
Adrian Goodyear, 55, who first attended Treloar’s when he was nine, said: “We couldn’t believe the place we were looking at. Rolling country hills, swimming pools, canoes, a Jacobian mansion. It was just remarkable at first.<\/p>\n
“We left school with death sentences.”<\/p>\n
Goodyear was infected with hepatitis and HIV while at the school.<\/p>\n
“In 1985, a doctor tearfully said that I had two to three years to live,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“I was told this with five other boys and the doctor went round the room and said: ‘You have\u2026 you haven’t\u2026 you have\u2026 you haven’t\u2026 you have got HIV’.”<\/p>\n
He said the memorial was important to keep the scandal “in the public consciousness” and to honour those who died.<\/p>\n
He added: “When we were here we made promises\u2026 they died in front of us, one winter we lost five boys.<\/p>\n
“I made promises to them, as did the other lads here today, that we would never give up. We would find out what happened.”<\/p>\n