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One of the dozen quinceanera shops in Little Village -- where families buy lavish gowns for their daughters' coming-of-age parties -- already went out of business, in September.

They made sure to have clean clothes on hand, so as not to degrade women further by sending them home in a hospital gown if their clothes had to be retained as evidence.

The pictures show a pallid, hollow-eyed man, resembling Poe, who’s sitting by the fire in his dressing gown when there comes a gentle “rapping, rapping” at the door.

"One day he would be wearing the full gown, to the floor and the next jeans and pyjama bottoms."

The High Court ruled Medpro failed to prove whether or not its surgical gowns, which were to be used by NHS workers, had undergone a validated sterilisation process.