The city's hospital Trust - which is responsible for the Queen's Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital - was today fined £800,000 over serious failings in the care and treatment of mum Sarah Andrews and baby daughter, Wynter.
The sentence was decided by District Judge Grace Leong after hearing from the prosecutor on behalf of the Care Quality Commission, which brought legal action against the Trust, and from Bernard Thorogood, a specialist barrister representing the interests of the Trust. She ordered to Trust pay £13,668.65 costs and a victim surcharge of £181.
Tiny new-born Wynter died after the umbilical cord had become wrapped around her neck and from acute chorioamnionitis - an inflammation of the placenta due to an infection. She had also suffered a haemorrhage to the brain and lung.
