RELATIVES of victims of the NHS infected blood scandal will hand in a letter to Downing Street on Monday to demand urgent action on full compensation.

The government is accused of dragging its heels over payments and ahead of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor and former health secretary Jeremy Hunt giving evidence to the infected blood inquiry this week.

Jason Evans, 33, was four years old when his father Jonathan, a 31-year-old carpenter from Coventry, died after being infected with hepatitis C and HIV.