Prosecutor demands maximum sentence for Helga Wauters over Xynthia Hawke’s death in France
An anaesthetist who had been drinking before an emergency caesarian that led to the death of a British woman should serve the maximum three years in jail if convicted and should be banned from working as a doctor, a French prosecutor has demanded.
Helga Wauters is on trial in Pau, south-west France, for the manslaughter of Xynthia Hawke in 2014. She is accused of starving Hawke of oxygen for up to an hour after pushing a ventilation tube into the wrong passageway.
Continue reading…Prosecutor demands maximum sentence for Helga Wauters over Xynthia Hawke’s death in FranceAn anaesthetist who had been drinking before an emergency caesarian that led to the death of a British woman should serve the maximum three years in jail if convicted and should be banned from working as a doctor, a French prosecutor has demanded.Helga Wauters is on trial in Pau, south-west France, for the manslaughter of Xynthia Hawke in 2014. She is accused of starving Hawke of oxygen for up to an hour after pushing a ventilation tube into the wrong passageway. Continue reading…