Belgian medic ‘who drank before fatal caesarian on British mother’ goes on trial for manslaughter

A Belgian anaesthetist accused of downing drinks before a fatal caesarian on a British mother has gone on trial in France. Expat Xynthia Hawke, 28, from Somerset, died shortly after giving birth to her baby son Isaac at the Orthez maternity hospital in southwest France, in September 2014. Ms Hawke went into cardiac arrest after … Read more