Questions about IVF pioneer after two discover they share biological father

Patrick Steptoe was an obstetrician and gynaecologist who helped develop in vitro fertilisation and ran a fertility clinic in Oldham Hospital, Greater Manchester

Patrick Steptoe is under scrutiny (PA)

Questions have been raised about one of the UK’s most well-known fertility doctors after two people whose parents attended his clinic reportedly made the shock discovery that their biological father is a lab scientist who worked in the same hospital as the physician.

Patrick Steptoe, who died in 1988, was an obstetrician and gynaecologist who helped develop in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and ran a fertility clinic in Oldham Hospital, Greater Manchester.