Man settles case over wife's cervical cancer death as HSE and US lab offer 'deep regrets'

(Left to right) Aoife Mitchell Creaven’s parents, Gabriel and Marcella, with her widowed husband Padraig Creaven leaving the High Court yesterday. After his wife’s death, Padraig Creaven was left alone with no child, a widower at 44 years of age. Photo: Collins Courts

The HSE and a US laboratory today said in the High Court they “deeply regret the pain, suffering and incalculable loss” experienced by a 40-year-old woman who died of cervical cancer, her husband and her family.

Aoife Mitchell Creaven had to have a termination at 20 weeks of her much-wanted IVF pregnancy after she discovered she had terminal cervical cancer.