Praveen Halappanavar thanked the senior nurse for her honesty at the inquest into the death of his wife Savita. The 31-year-old died from septicaemia due to E.coli four days following a miscarriage.

Halappanavar thanked midwife Ann Burke for her honesty.u00a0Burke, a midwife manager at Galway University Hospital where Savita died, had told the inquest she was very upset about the ‘Catholic country’ remark and that she did not mean it in a hurtful context.