Professor John Reynolds said he had never come across an inferior vena cava in that part of the body in over 30 years of performing surgery.

The court heard the woman's husband died of a form of blood cancer in April 2022

Bridget McKeown (68), a mother of three from Balbriggan, Co Dublin died at a nursing home in Swords on September 30th, 2019 after her family had discharged her from the Beacon Hospital in Sandyford, Dublin on May 14th, 2019

Barrister Alan Toal has been a patient at the Beacon for over a decade