Woman aiming to use dead daughter's eggs to have child 'would fulfil dying wish'

A British woman who wants to use her daughter’s frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild has appealed to judges to allow her to carry out the dying wishes of her only child.

The 60-year-old, whose daughter died of cancer in 2011, lost an action at the High Court last year, but is now asking Court of Appeal judges to rule in her favour.

Her QC, Jenni Richards, told the judges that the woman wants to fulfil her daughter’s wishes that her mother should carry a child created from her frozen eggs “and raise that child”.