‘I was right to be frightened’: Nicola Packer on the humiliation and trauma of her trial for illegal abortion

Acquitted woman wants to ensure there​ is never again an abortion trial in England​ ​ “I hate sitting in silence now,” Nikki Packer says. A quiet room reminds her too much of the police cell she was locked into just hours after undergoing a traumatic stillbirth.Arrested in hospital by uniformed officers while still recovering from surgery, she was accused of carrying out an illegal abortion. It took four-and-a-half years for her case to come to court, where last wee