In 2007 20 or 30mg/kg/day Deferiprone was used in a pilot clinical trial in Friedreich ataxia (FA)patients, to assess whether the drug was well tolerated, removed excess brain iron and improved the clinical symptoms of FA. FA occurs due to a gene defect leading iron accumulation in the mitochondria in the cerebellum, toxicity of which leads to ataxia or inability to control muscle movements. FA is diagnosed in young individuals (14-26 years of age) and has no clinical treatment. In this 6 months FA study Deferiprone at 20 or 30mg/kg/day was well tolerated by the patients and resulted in a reduction in brain iron, as indicated by MRI brain imaging, and led to a clinical improvement in patient symptoms. Whilst this represents the first clinical use of an iron chelator to treat a neurodegenerative disorder, the FA patients in this study were young (14-23 years old) hence we do not know how aged (average age 60years) individuals commonly affected by PD will respond to iron chelator treatment. Hence the first aim of this study is to conduct the first pilot clinical trial with an iron chelator in newly diagnosed PD patients to assess tolerability along with its ability to reduce iron content in the brain area affected in PD, the substantia nigra, as assessed by MRI.