The health secretary has been warned that a recent conviction over the use of abortion pills to poison a woman “could be the tip of the iceberg” unless safeguards are brought into place.
Former Tory minister Sir John Hayes has written to Wes Streeting in the wake of Stuart Worby’s conviction earlier this month at Norwich Crown Court. Worby, 40, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for obtaining “pills by post” to spike his then partner’s orange juice.