Lee was born with severe haemophilia, a rare condition in which the blood does not clot properly. It mostly affects men. His council in Hounslow, west London, wouldn’t let him join his local secondary school – the risk of a severe bleed was too great. So, in 1980, aged 11, he was sent to the grounds of a stately home in Hampshire.
Infected blood: Parents and pupils reveal they were kept in dark at stricken school
