A CRITICALLY ill baby’s family have had to turn off her life support after a heartbreaking legal battle.
Indi Gregory‘s parents Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth have tragically lost their fight to carry on treating their eight-month-old.
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AFPClaire Staniforth and Dean Gregory have lost their battle[/caption]
The baby girl has been at the centre of a legal battle ever since she was diagnosed with mitochondrial disease.
The incurable condition drains energy from the body’s cells.
Indi also has a hole in her heart and had operations on her bowel and skull soon after she was born in February.
The tragedy to turn off her life support has now been made following a decision by the High Court and Court of Appeal, a campaign organisation supporting her parents has said.
Indi stopped breathing on Saturday night, but then recovered, the organisation added.
She has now been transferred from the Queen’s Medical Centre, in Nottingham, to a hospice where here dad Dean said “she is fighting hard”.
In a further agonising blow, the judge said Indi’s life support must be removed at the hospital or a hospice and not at home.
Mr Justice Peel said withdrawing the treatment at Indi’s house would be “too dangerous”.
He added: “I consider it essential that (Indi) should continue to have clinical treatment of the highest quality, carried out in a safe and sustainable setting. That will not be available at home.”
Indi’s parents had been planning to move the baby to Rome where Italian medics had offered her treatment.
The Italian Council of Ministers made a decision to grant Indi Italian citizenship, which would have paved the way for fresh legal battles.
Mr Justice Peel ruled a move to Italy would not be in Indi’s best interests and Court of Appeal judges backed that decision.