A Welsh court has intervened after it was decided that a baby name chosen by a local mum was unacceptable.
The mother had chosen the name ‘Cyanide’ for her baby girl, as a tribute to the poison consumed by Adolf Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun in a suicide pact in 1945.
Social workers in the town of Powys reported the woman’s intention to register to child’s name alongside her twin brother ‘Preacher’, causing the court to issue an injunction, effectively forbidding her from using the name in any official documentation.
The children are no longer in their mother’s care and court heard she has a history of drug and alcohol abuse as well as mental illness.
Despite the woman’s lawyer’s claim that her right to respect for family life had been violated by the decision, the court ruled the name could not be used.
According to the BBC, speaking in court Lady Justice King said “even allowing for changes in taste, fashion and developing individual perception”, Cyanide was not an acceptable name for a child.
