Cervical Check asked my late wife to hush up case

WIDOW INSULTED' IN BATTLE WITH HSE

- Aodhan O FAOLAIN

A MAN whose wife died from cervical cancer over five years ago has told a judge how CervicalCheck visited her in hospital and asked her not to go public.

"They said she was the only one. Then Vicky Phelan happened," Cathal Curtis told Mr Justice Paul Coffey.

He added if there was no Vicky Phelan, the case of his wife Michelle would have brought the CervicalCheck scandal into public view.

Mr Curtis was speaking as he settled the action his wife started over the alleged misinterpretation of four of her smear slides.

Mother-of-two and nurse Michelle was 45 when she died in 2016, a year after she was diagnosed with Stage 4 cervical cancer.

The settlement against the HSE; two laboratories and a GP is without admission of liability and its terms are confidential.