Agoraphobic pregnant woman can be forced into hospital, UK judge rules

Judge rules medical staff can use minimum force on woman who has barely left home in four years

Medics can use force to remove an agoraphobic pregnant woman from her home so she can give birth in hospital, a judge has ruled.

Justice Holman concluded that it would be in the 21-year-old's best interests to allow staff trained in restraint techniques to use minimum force if the woman refused to leave home.