The MoD has settled a law suit with a former RAF man who claimed working with a “toxic soup” of chemicals at a Scottish airbase left him with a rare cancer.Michael Boyd was awarded a significant sum – believed to be six figures – just hours before his case was due to be heard at the Royal Courts of Justice in London last week.The 55-year-old was exposed to lethal cancer-causing solvents in his work as a squipper – the specialists who repair aircrew survival equipment – at RAF Kinloss, in the 80s.He and his mates operated in poorly ventilated work bays with little or no protective clothing at the Moray base.Michael said his time there was solely to blame for his incurable non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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