THE government is facing legal action from victims of the infected blood scandal over “misfeasance in public office,” their lawyer said today.

Contaminated blood products caused nearly 30,000 NHS patients to become infected with HIV and hepatitis C in the 1970s through to the 1990s. More than 3,000 have since died.

A civil litigation has now been relaunched by 500 victims against the Secretary of State for Health.