Distracted by snooker:

Shuna Gregory and Ryan Abrahams’s child, Saffron, became critically ill after contracting an infection during birth. She died aged 11 months. Her parents claim that John Miller, a consultant obstetrician, took no action over Miss Gregory’s continuous bleeding in the hours before she gave birth to her daughter, in which she suffered a tear in her placenta. The tear caused blood loss, triggering renal complications that infected and eventually killed Saffron.

While Mr Miller should have been paying attention to Miss Gregory’s condition, he was instead being distracted by the snooker match on the television in the same room, the High Court sitting in Winchester was told.