A GRIEVING daughter has described how her family were turfed out of their home after her father died from contaminated blood.

Lisa Nelson, 47, said they were left destitute after former civil servant Neil Kerr contracted HIV and hepatitis C from infected blood products.

Speaking ahead of the publication of the final report of the infected blood scandal inquiry on May 20, she said that she was 21 when her “wonderful” father died from Aids aged 42 in 2000.

Mr Kerr was the “life and soul of the party” but was co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C during his treatment for a severe blood clotting disorder, haemophilia type A.

Ms Nelson described how money stopped coming in to the family a couple of months after his death.

Their car was repossessed and they didn’t know where the next meal was going to come from after her bank handed her a £1 coin instead of a loan, she said.

“I had to take it,” she said. “I couldn’t throw it back but I had to take it because they had to put something on the table and I think it got a tin of beans and a loaf of bread that we were able to make last for a few days.

“There were constant debt collector calls, and it was me that dealt with those and to deal with the house because my mum just couldn’t.”

Tens of thousands of people were infected with contaminated blood or blood products between the 1970s and early 1990s.

The scandal, dubbed the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS, has been the subject of the biggest ever public inquiry in Britain.

Ms Nelson said survivors will be “worried sick about what is going to happen to their families too” as the majority, like her father, are not entitled to life insurance.

“That should be the last thing someone is thinking about when they are coming to the end of their life, especially when this isn’t their fault: they’re sick through for something that was done to them — not the the luck of the draw, this is from something that had been given to them,” she said.