Woman cleared in abortion case set to complain over treatment

A WOMAN cleared of having an illegal abortion is planning to file a complaint with the police, prosecutors and the NHS over how she was treated.

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Nicola Packer told the BBC her situation “could have been handled much more compassionately” and that what she had been through makes her “feel sick".

The 45-year-old was cleared by a jury last month of “unlawfully administering to herself a poison or other noxious thing" with the “intent to procure a miscarriage”. She had taken prescribed abortion medicine when she was around 26 weeks pregnant, beyond the legal limit of 10 weeks for taking such medication at home and beyond the legal abortion limit of 24 weeks. She told jurors she did not realise she had been pregnant for more than 10 weeks.