Wallsend, near Newcastle, has been rocked by the arrest of a former midwife charged with manslaughter following the death of a baby during a home birth in 2024. The woman has now been granted conditional bail.
Police allege that on Wednesday, 2 October 2024, a privately practising midwife attended a home in Wallsend to assist with a birth. Over the following two days, the midwife allegedly did not act on signs of complications or the mother’s requests to be taken to hospital.
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