Charges dropped against scientist inhepatitis C case

HEPATITIS C sufferers infected by contaminated blood were left devastated last night after a prosecution against a leading scientist was dropped.

Biochemist Dr Cecily Cunningham, from Clontarf, north Dublin had been strongly criticised by the Findlay Tribunal over the making of the Anti-D product.

But after years of investigations and failed court challenges to halt a trial, the Director of Public Prosecutions has decided not to prosecute the case.