42-Year-Old Mother Deliberately Infected With HIV By Sick Lover Speaks Out

Kara Wilkinson, 42, a mother from Cumbria (pictured left in 2009 and right today), says she has suffered four heart attacks, pneumonia, osteoporosis and severe hair loss since she was infected with HIV by boyfriend Alan Mason, 45 (inset), in 2011.

According to Wilkinson, Mason knew he had the virus before asking her for unprotected s*x. Mason yesterday started serving two years and eight months behind bars for grievous bodily harm, but Miss Wilkinson is still pained saying she has been condemned to ‘a life sentence of misery’.

‘Before I had HIV, I was never ill and had loads of energy. Now I seem to be permanently ill. My long blonde hair has started to fall out and I look much older than I am. ‘I don’t even have a mirror in my house as I can’t stand to look at my reflection.

‘He’s taken my life away. I won’t ever forgive him for what he’s done to me. What he’s given me will never go away.

‘I don’t think I’ll ever have another relationship – how could I ever trust another man? And, unlike Alan, I’d hate to put anyone else at risk from catching HIV.’