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Five people have been charged in Co Offaly with withholding information or impeding the investigation into the 2022 murder of 23-year-old Ashling Murphy.

Five people have appeared in court charged in relation to the Ashling Murphy murder investigation.

Women in Britain do not have a right to abortion, only exemption from prosecution if certain conditions are met—the same as the legal status of strike action.

Carla Foster, 44, obtained abortifacient medication through the pills by post scheme, introduced during lockdown, which permits the termination of pregnancies up to 10 weeks gestation

Caroline Nokes, the Conservative who chairs the Commons Women and Equalities Committee, has joined womens rights groups in calling for reform to the 1861 law used to prosecute Carla Foster.

Campaigners have urged reform after the mother-of-three received a sentence of 28 months, 14 of which will be spent in custody

A woman has been jailed for terminating her pregnancy late during the Covid lockdown

The MP Caroline Nokes has said the law used to prosecute Carla Foster was "out of date" and needed reform

Carla Foster, 44, who was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant when she received the medication, was jailed for two years and four months at Stoke Crown Court yesterday.

A 44-year-old was given a 28-month extended sentence after she admitted illegally procuring her own abortion late in her pregnancy.