Woman weighed 4.2 stone on admission to hospital in 'most serious' anorexia case, judge says

Mr Justice Peter Kelly heard the young woman has intense feelings of self-hatred and has told doctors she is “not worth treating” and will stop eating as soon as she gets out of hospital.

By Ann O'Loughlin

The President of the High Court has described the case of a young woman with severe anorexia as perhaps the “most serious” yet to have come before the court.