The National Maternity Hospital, five medical consultants, and a Glasgow laboratory have conceded liability in full in a wrongful abortion case.

Rebecca Price and Patrick Kiely were told in early 2019 that pre-natal tests showed their unborn baby certainly had Trisomy 18 and the pregnancy was not viable. They were advised “in no uncertain terms” that there was no point in waiting for the results of a more comprehensive chromosomal analysis.

Ms Price said she followed the advice of her consultant and had an abortion at the National Maternity Hospital.

Afterwards, it was discovered that the third test involving a fuller analysis of the baby’s chromosomes showed it did not have the condition.

Ms Price says she suffered intense nervous shock, realising that she had aborted a normal, healthy baby.

Ms Price says the management of her pregnancy was grossly substandard and displayed utter genetic illiteracy culminating in the tragic and unnecessary abortion of her son and incalculable loss to her and to Mr Kiely.

She said she had been left with a devastating sense of loss, which could not be filled.