‘If I’d known he was taking part in the trials I would have stopped him’

THE aunt of the Irishman fighting for his life in a British hospital after taking part in a drug trial said she would have tried to prevent him from taking part in the experiment.

Dolores Flanagan yesterday said that she did not know her nephew, Ryan Wilson, was due to take part in tests being carried out by a medical research firm in London when she spoke to him last Sunday.

“If I had known he was taking part in those trials, I would have stopped him. If I’d known he was going to have such a terrible reaction, I would have said ‘Don’t you dare’.”