Aston Hall victims have blasted the government’s compensation scheme as ‘an insult’ to their suffering.
More than 130 former child patients underwent sexual, physical and mental abuse at the psychiatric hospital, in Derbyshire, during the 1960s and 70s.
Many of them were stripped naked, placed in straight jackets and injected with sodium amytal during ‘treatment’ carried out by former hospital boss Dr Kenneth Milner.
An agreement had now been reached between the Health Secretary and the victims which will see the total compensation run into millions of pounds. Read more