The 24-year-old bank teller last year won the right to harvest Joshua Davies' sperm after he killed himself, and on Wednesday won the right to be allowed to use them for in vitro fertilisation.

In August 2016 Cresswell instructed her legal representatives to file an urgent application to the court just hours after his body was found, seeking orders for the removal of sperm, and was successful.

"She's thought about it, had counselling, gone through many hoops, and had many tests to see if she can conceive," Cresswell's lawyer Kathryn McMillan QC told the court last year.