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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Murray

‘Sense of deja vu’: other maternity victims say Shrewsbury not a one-off

Sarah and Jack Hawkins
Sarah and Jack Hawkins of Nottingham lost their daughter Harriet: ‘So many people out there will be coming forward now.’ Photograph: Shawn Ryan

Sarah Hawkins could barely look at the photos of the families affected by the Shrewsbury maternity scandal as they responded to a landmark review this week.

“It’s so difficult even to look at those pictures because I can feel their emotions,” said Hawkins, whose daughter Harriet was stillborn, nine hours after dying, at the end of a six-day labour at Nottingham city hospital in 2016.

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