In Re Exhumation Of A Baby [2024] ECC Exe 1 the mother, ‘M’, of a baby girl, ‘X’, who died at or shortly after her birth in 2022, sought a faculty to exhume and reinter the remains of her baby, who was survived by a twin sister.

M said that the children were conceived within a highly abusive relationship, during which their father, ‘F’, assaulted her on several occasions during her pregnancy, with the result that the children were born prematurely at 23 weeks [1]. F was subsequently sentenced to a total of 2½ years’ imprisonment [5], Continue reading →