London - Harrowing video footage of the suffering of a teenage victim of CJD, the human form of "mad cow" disease, was sent to the British Prime Minister as part of a cry for help from despairing families, it emerged last night.
After watching the 10minute home video of Donnamarie McGivern lying limp and motionless in her Scottish home, with tubes attached to her body, Mr Blair said no one who saw it could fail to be moved.
A report on the BSE affair will be published today after a two and a half year, £27 million inquiry.