Savita was let down by State, law and care

Let down by the State, let down by the law, or simply let down by the doctors and midwives charged with Savita Halappanavar’s care.

It is hard to imagine which of these scarred grieving Praveen the most after several harrowing days listening to clinical evidence which laid bare the final hours of his wife’s life.

Six months on from the death, details emerged of a litany of system failures in the hospital.