Dozens of young women in a Romanian town are awaiting the results of an HIV test after discovering at the funeral of a local Romeo that he had been suffering from AIDS.

And the funeral of Daniel Decu, 24, which was attended by many of his lovers when he was was buried this week turned into an angry shouting match when it was revealed he had been HIV positive.

Although he was registered as living with the condition it only became known to the public when an autopsy was carried out and a coroner’s report published.

And incredibly, it was also revealed that when a local doctor in the town of Segarcea, in south-eastern Romania’s Dolj County, tried to warn people he was suffering from the disease, he was threatened with a lawsuit by the man’s mother.

Doctor Cornel Stanciu, their family physician, knew that Daniel was HIV positive and tried to make his health condition public after the 24-year-old had a relationship with his daughter.

But when Daniel’s mother found out what the doctor was doing, she had threatened to sue him unless it stopped.

The doctor said: “I knew he had a lot of female friends but there was nothing I could do about it.”

Some of the women had found out before the funeral that he had been living with AIDS, and at least two of them have so far been confirmed as HIV-positive. In total 40 women have applied to have the test done and are awaiting the results, said prosecutors.