How lawyer appealed to clients for cases to send to Andrew Wakefield for research

This page is research from an investigation by Brian Deer for the UK's Channel 4 Television and The Sunday Times of London into a campaign linking the Wakefield factorMMR children's vaccine with autism. | Go to part I: The Lancet scandal | Go to part II: The

In June 1996, lawyer Richard Barr sent this newsletter to his MMR and MR clients, seeking [at page 2] children to refer to Andrew Wakefield at the Royal Free hospital. In the same month, the two men submitted plans to the government's Legal Services Commission seeking money to fund research trying to prove that the vaccines were unsafe. Working for Barr, Wakefield was eventually paid more than £400,000 to attack the vaccines, with payments commencing two years before his now notorious claims