Marion Owens, who worked as a senior midwife at Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, allegedly told a woman in labour that she would remove her baby ‘with a knife and fork’.

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She also is said to have sworn repeatedly at the expectant mother, telling her: "I’ve been a midwife for 20 f****** years and no f***** is telling me how to f****** care for a f****** woman in labour."

It was also alleged that the midwife gave the expectant mother a dose of Prostrin - drug which induces labour - without a prescription.

According to the NHS, the drug should be prescribed to labouring mothers with 'special care', as one in 100 people who take the drug experience problems with the foetus, such as foetal distress or heart-rate problems.

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A spokesman for the Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust said of the case, which has been adjourned for the time being, that: "While no direct patient harm was found to have been caused, the midwife in question was deemed to have displayed serious and significant failings in her professional duty of care.

"This investigation resulted in her dismissal from Liverpool Women’s in December 2012, and the Trust also referred its findings to the Nursing and Midwifery Council."

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However, speaking speaking from the family home in Liverpool, Mrs Owens’s husband has since dismissed the alleged comments as ‘banter’.

He told a reporter: "I would not have thought she would want to talk to you because she was quite upset at the way it was portrayed."

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When pressed further over the incident, Mr Owens added: "Like I say it was banter, it was taken out of context. If she thought it was going into print I think she would be horrified."

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