A 21-year-old Northern Irish woman who induced an abortion after buying pills online has been given a suspended prison sentence.

The 21-year-old woman pleaded guilty to two charges of procuring her own abortion with a poison and of supplying a poison with intent to procure a miscarriage.

Abortion is illegal in Northern Ireland except in very limited circumstances, unlike the rest of the UK.

The woman was given a three-month sentence suspended for two years in a case that is believed to be the first of its kind.