Grieving husband whose wife died of cervical cancer sues and claims for surrogacy

The High Court heard how Aoife Mitchell Creaven had to travel to London to have her much-wanted pregnancy terminated as chemotherapy was her only option

(Left to right) Aoife Mitchell Creaven’s parents, Gabriel and Marcella, with her widowed husband Padraig Creaven leaving the High Court today. Photo: Collins Courts

A grieving husband wants to honour a wish he and his deceased wife had to have a child and is claiming the costs of surrogacy in a High Court action following her death from cervical cancer.

The case against the HSE, three laboratories and a hospital centres on the alleged misinterpretation of the woman’s cervical smear sample in 2011 taken under the CervicalCheck national screening programme.