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Sentence upheld

Tuesday 13 July 1993 23:02 BST
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A French appeal court confirmed a four-year prison sentence on Michel Garretta, the former head of the national blood bank, for knowingly distributing HIV-contaminated blood products to haemophiliacs, Reuter reports from Paris.

The court also confirmed that Jean-Pierre Allain, ex-director of transfusion research, should serve four years with two suspended.

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