THE solicitor representing Ms Roisin McAliskey has condemned the "three-minute pit-stop" at Greenwich Hospital on Thursday where Ms McAliskey was taken suffering from stomach pains.
Mrs Gareth Peirce also criticised prison officers at Belmarsh high security prison in London for not responding to Ms McAliskey's complaints earlier. Ms McAliskey, who is 16 weeks pregnant, was moved from the all-male prison at Belmarsh to Holloway Women's Prison on Thursday afternoon.
Earlier in the day she had been taken to Greenwich Hospital complaining of stomach pains, and a statement released by the Prison Service following the visit described Ms McAliskey as being in "good general health" and her pregnancy as "progressing normally".
Although Ms McAliskey received medical attention on Thursday afternoon, Mrs Peirce said Ms McAliskey had alerted prison officers on Wednesday night that she was in pain.
The statement by the Prison Service that Ms McAliskey had received a pregnancy scan and a full examination by a consultant obstetrician was challenged by Mrs Peirce's version of the hospital visit, during which she said: "No medical records were produced, no blood tests were taken".
A spokesman for the prison service said it "did not have any further comment to make" on the transfer or hospital treatment.
Ms McAliskey is on remand fighting an extradition warrant to Germany in connection with the IRA bombing of a British army base in Osnabruck last year.