A prisoner who claimed for damages against doctors who failed to spot her cancer has lost her case on appeal.

Cheryl Carter, 34, of Brixton, south London, had previously won a High Court case for negligence, amid claims medics at Cookham Wood prison in Rochester failed to diagnose her breast cancer.

But that has now been quashed by the Court of Appeal, following an appeal by the Ministry of Justice.

The court heard her cancer was discovered after she left prison in 2005, and prison doctors had found no abnormality during her stay.