CervicalCheck asked widower's wife in hospital not to make case public, court told

The husband of Michelle Silke Curtis told the judge if there was no Vicky Phelan case, the case of his wife would have broken the CervicalCheck controversy

Cathal Curtis (left) and his wife Michelle Silke Curtis. Mother of two Michelle was 45 years of age when she died in 2016 one year after she was diagnosed with Stage 4 cervical cancer.

A grieving widower whose wife died from cervical cancer over five years ago has told a judge how when she was in hospital CervicalCheck visited her and asked her not to go public about her case.

“CervicalCheck visited her in hospital and asked her not to go public. They said she was the only one then Vicky Phelan happened,” Cathal Curtis told Mr Justice Paul Coffey.