The former captain of the Wales rugby team Gareth Thomas is the subject of a complaint to British justice from an ex-partner who accuses him of having transmitted HIV to him by hiding his HIV status.
According to the court file, the plaintiff, Ian Baum, 59, believes that Thomas “did not take the necessary precautions” to avoid contamination.
“He hid the fact that he had HIV and passed it on to me,” he said in an interview with The Times.
According to court documents, Baum says he found out about Thomas's HIV status by reading up on the internet about pills the former player was taking that presented them as vitamins when they were actually a treatment for HIV.
Thomas reveals his HIV status to the general public in 2019
The complainant, who says he was HIV-negative when he started dating Thomas in 2013, also says Thomas was “coercive and overbearing” to keep his HIV status from coming out publicly.
The former three-quarter revealed he had HIV in 2019.
Gareth Thomas, 48, 100 appearances with Wales, was the first rugby player in history to come out as gay in 2009. Since retiring from the field, he has become an activist for gay rights.
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