THE CASE THAT RULED THERE MUST BE CONSENT…

Diane BLOOD, right, made history in 1997 by winning a two-year legal fight to have children using her dead husband’s sperm. Liam, now 19, and Joel, 16, were born after their father Stephen died in 1995 from bacterial meningitis. His sperm was retrieved while he was in a coma. The UK Court of appeal ruled this was illegal without written consent but that discretion could be used and Mrs Blood had iVF treatment in Brussels.