内容摘要："I was so frightened of feeling sadness because I thought that if I felt the sadness, it would never go and that would just eat me up.

"I was so frightened of feeling sadness because I thought that if I felt the sadness, it would never go and that would just eat me up.

Since then posts with versions of the claim have circulated occasionally on X and other platforms, with some posts from larger accounts in 2024 getting more attention, before intensifying massively in recent days.Speaking to BBC Verify, Mr Afzal clarified his position admitting that he has never seen any circular with the form of words that he used in his 2018 interview.

Instead he now says he was referring to police officers who had told him some officers had misinterpreted instructions in a circular sent by the Home Office.Mr Afzal pointed us towhich is about the police's powers under the 1989 Children's Act.

However, the words "informed choice" do not appear anywhere in the text, nor is the circular about child grooming gangs.It does contain, however, a section on how to judge significant harm to a child. "It is important always to take account of the child's reactions, and his or her perceptions, according to the child's age and understanding," it reads.

It seems difficult to understand how any police officer could misconstrue this section in the way Mr Afzal described in his 2018 interview

He told BBC Verify he was "paraphrasing what I thought that meant to them", when he gave his Radio 4 interview.During labour, she was told her son Rupert had died.

"It was the worst thing that had ever happened to me, it literally feels like you’re in a horror film."It’s unbelievably painful."

She said after the birth she was told she would be given medication to dry up her milk."It felt so wrong, I knew I still wanted to donate.