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Ellie Crabbe

Woman accused of having illegal abortion found not guilty

Nicola Packer, 45, who has been found not guilty of having an illegal abortion. - (PA Media)

A woman has been found not guilty of having an illegal abortion during the second coronavirus lockdown.

Nicola Packer, 45, cried and wiped her eyes with a tissue after she was acquitted by a jury at Isleworth Crown Court in south-west London, of “unlawfully administering to herself a poison or other noxious thing” with the “intent to procure a miscarriage”.

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