Life-support treatment has been withdrawn from a critically ill baby girl who has been at the centre of a legal battle, a campaign organisation supporting her parents has said.
Eight-month-old Indi Gregory has been transferred from the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham to a hospice, Christian Concern said on Sunday.
She stopped breathing on Saturday night, but then recovered, the organisation said.
“She is fighting hard,” her father is quoting as saying.
Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth, Indi’s parents, have continually fought to overturn multiple rulings by UK courts to keep their daughter on life-support.
It is understood Indi was transferred from the hospital to an ambulance with a police security escort.
She was said to have been relaxed and slept during the journey to the hospice.
Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, said: “Dean and Claire are by the side of their precious daughter Indi, keeping watch over her. We ask for your prayers for them”.
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The parents of a critically-ill baby have lost another legal battle after a High Court judge refused to allow them to transfer their child to Italy for treatment.
Indi was born in February with a rare mitochondrial disease, a genetic condition that saps energy, and has been receiving life-sustaining treatment.
Her doctors have said she suffers from significant pain and distress and that treatment is futile.
Her parents have also failed in a bid to transfer Indi to a hospital in Rome where she had been offered treatment and Italian citizenship.
High Court judge Mr Justice Peel ruled a move to Italy would not be in Indi’s best interests and Court of Appeal judges backed that decision.
The Vatican Press Office released a statement on Saturday saying Pope Francis is praying for the family.
“Pope Francis embraces the family of little Indi Gregory, her father, and her mother; prays for them and for her, and turns his thoughts to all the children around the world at this very hour are living in pain or risk their lives because of illness or war,” the statement said.
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