DPP refuses to reveal reason for dropping Hep C charges

The Director of Public Prosecutions has refused to say why charges relating to the infection of women with Hepatitis C were dropped against the former principal biochemist with the Blood Transfusion Service Board.

Ms Cecily Cunningham (aged 68) was charged with seven counts of unlawfully administering infected Anti-D medicine resulting in grievous bodily harm. All charges were dropped by the DPP last January because “changes in evidential subjects were such that a prosecution could not have been sustained".