Prosecutor demands maximum sentence for Helga Wauters over Xynthia Hawke’s death in France
An anaesthetist who had been drinking before an emergency caesarian that led to the death of a British woman should serve the maximum three years in jail if convicted and should be banned from working as a doctor, a French prosecutor has demanded.
Helga Wauters is on trial in Pau, south-west France, for the manslaughter of Xynthia Hawke in 2014. She is accused of starving Hawke of oxygen for up to an hour after pushing a ventilation tube into the wrong passageway.
