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It is an enchanting image that will strike a chord with most parents: baby Nicola, surrounded by her adoring family, as she gazes curiously at the single candle on her first birthday cake.
Nicola’s first and only birthday Jo Moreno’s baby girl did turn one, but died days after this photo was taken. She was just one of hundreds of victims of an appalling medical scandal. Fifty years on, Lorraine Fisher meets the families still fighting against a tide of shocking cover-ups and injustice Sitting in an armchair, tenderly cradling her sickly 11-month-old daughter in her arms, Jo Moreno made a deal with God. ‘Lord,’ she prayed, ‘if you let me have her for her first birthday, you can take her.’ Jo got her wish: a few days later her beautiful little girl Nicola was bl...