An inquiry into the biggest health scandal of all time is set to resume tomorrow with one Kent widow desperately hoping for answers.

Su Gorman's husband Steve Dymond, along with hundreds of others, was given contaminated blood during transfusions in the 1970s and 1980s.

He sadly died in December before the inquiry into the contaminated blood could end.

KMTV spoke to the couple last October shortly before Steve passed away

The NHS had bought blood products from the USA in the 1970s which had been taken from prisoners and not screened.

Thousands of people were infected with HIV and Hepatitis C, with at least 2,400 dying.

There are huge questions about how and why the blood treatment, known as Factor VIII, was given to patients when the government knew there were risks of infection.

The inquiry gets under way today and Su, 64, has mixed feelings as she prepares to give evidence and statements next month.

She said: "A part of me is happy it's happening but a large art of me thinks it is too late.

"What I am hoping for is answers to questions like why did it happen and where, if any, the guilt lies.

"For me I have nothing left. Steve wanted those who did this to them to repent. That was his dying wish.

"Our lives were treated with such contempt. Why did it take 40 years to get this far and we still aren't getting straight answers from the Department for Health."

In July 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May announced a public inquiry into the scandal - but Mr Dymond will not be around to see it to its conclusion after he passed away on December 28.

Steve was diagnosed with Hepatitis C around 1997 while the couple were living in France; during that time, unexplained symptoms of severe mood swings, debilitating fatigue, and muscle pain had put an unimaginable strain on their marriage.

After an agonising wait, a breakthrough in treatment saw Steve trial new medication.

Miraculously, it left him free of the disease within three months, but by that time his organs were irreparably damaged and he had developed liver cancer.

Just weeks before his death he spoke to Kent Online about his life.

Su said: "When Steve was diagnosed we felt relieved because there was an explanation for his symptoms and there was a reason.

"There are people who say 'come on it happened so long ago, let it go', but it is still happening now. It's my premature widowhood and there are people struggling with symptoms.

"No government department can treat anyone in the population with such contempt again."

Mr Dymond became a leading figure in the fight for justice, making regular appearances on televison to highlight the scandal.

Su is desperate for answers and hopes those behind the NHS scandal face up to their errors.

She added: "Justice to me would be anyone to have acted outside the law to face criminal prosecution. I'm not bothered about compensation but we lived on a reduced income and we couldn't get life insurance in the 1990s.

"No attempt has been made to recompense us for what we lost because of, at best, a mistake by people who are there to help us."

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