A doctor's failure to deliver a baby by caesarean section contributed to the decapitation of the boy during birth.

Dr Vaishnavy Laxman wrongly decided to deliver the first time mother's baby naturally at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee on March 2014, a medical tribunal has found.

It was found that the patient's cervix was too small, being no more than 4cm wide, during the delivery.

Ms Laxman, who previously undertook roles in obstetrics and gynaecology in Stirling and Kirkcaldy, started work at 8.30am the previous day and went home at 6pm for five hours.

She then returned to the hospital at 11pm before being told about the patient at 2am.

Ms Laxman was then paged at 8.30am to take a look at her when her condition became more critical.

Tribunal papers said: "The tribunal found that the breach extraction and consequences of traction was necessitated by Dr Vaishnavy Laxman's earlier decision to proceed with a vaginal delivery and which is the subject of the tribunal's findings.

"Accordingly, the tribunal found that Dr Vaishnavy Laxman conduct set in train a course of events which ultimately resulted in the decapitation of baby B and to this extent contributed to the decapitation.

"But for Dr Vaishnavy Laxman error of judgement in this regard, the decapitation would not have occurred."