Showjumper’s damages against pre birth doctor can never be revealed to protect her from death threats

A disabled showjumper who won a landmark case against her GP over her ‘wrongful conception’ will be protected by a court order preventing details of her settlement ever being revealed. Evie Toombes, 23, who was born with spina bifida, sued Dr Philip Mitchell over his failure to advise her mother Caroline Toombes, 52, to take supplements before getting pregnant. She argued that if the doctor should have instructed her mother to take folic acid supplements and to delay her conception…