The Torquay Herald Express has successfully challenged an order banning the paper from naming a mother involved in a child abuse case.

The paper argued that the restriction made under Section 39 of the Children and Young Persons Act in the case at Exeter Crown Court "drastically curtailed its freedom to report serious crimes" committed by mother Hayley Poole and her violent babysitter Andrew Hunter.

Hunter was said to have assaulted Poole's twins and inflicted "horrendous, life-threatening injuries" on one of them.