Proper independent investigations of crimes against women and their babies together with full compensation and the trial of perpetrators is now urgent, the State has been told.

AFTER the Nazi medical experiments on human beings, the Nuremberg code was drawn up to prevent such barbarity happening again. At its core was that anybody being subjected to medical experiments must give their consent.

Last week the Government announced the establishment of an ex-gratia redress scheme for women who underwent symphysiotomy.