A teenage showjumper is suing a GP over his alleged failure to tell her mother to take folic acid before she was conceived.
Paralympic hopeful Evie Toombes, from Skegness, has limited mobility after being born in 2001 with a form of spina bifida.
Through her mother Caroline Toombes, the 19-year-old has now brought the first step of a compensation claim against Dr Philip Mitchell, her mother's former GP.
Evie alleges that Dr Mitchell negligently failed to recommend that her mother should increase her intake of folic acid, a lack of which increases the risk of an unborn child developing spina bifida.