Her parents failed to persuade judges at the court of appeal and at the European court of human rights in Strasbourg, France, to overturn that decision. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.Ī high court judge, Mr Justice Peel, had ruled that limiting treatment would be lawful and that doing so would be in Indi’s best interests. For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. Specialists from the Queen’s Medical Centre said she was dying and that the treatment she was receiving causes pain and was futile. Indi was born on 24 February with mitochondrial disease, a genetic condition that the NHS says is incurable. Indi’s case is the latest high-profile end-of-life hearing to reach the Royal Courts of Justice, following similarly fraught battles over the treatment of children including Archie Battersbee, Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans, Isaiah Haastrup, Tafida Raqeeb and Alta Fixsler. It said the pope “embraces the family of little Indi Gregory, her father and mother, prays for them and for her, and turns his thoughts to all the children around the world in these same hours who are living in pain or risking their lives because of disease and war”.

It came after Pope Francis said he was praying for Indi’s family in a statement released by the Vatican on Saturday. In a statement issued through the group, Indi’s father said she is “fighting hard”.Īndrea Williams, chief executive of Christian Concern’s sister organisation, the Christian Legal Centre, said the parents were “by the side of their precious daughter” on Sunday. It said Indi has been moved from the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham, where she was being treated, to a hospice. The not-for-profit organisation Christian Concern, which is supporting the family, said on Sunday that specialists had withdrawn life support. On Friday, three appeal court judges ruled that life support treatment could only be withdrawn in a hospital or hospice, not at the family home. However, judges said a move to Italy was not in Indi’s best interests and called an intervention by Italian consular officials “wholly misconceived”.

The infant, from Ilkeston in Derbyshire, was last week granted emergency Italian citizenship by the country’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, as part of an extraordinary last-minute attempt to have her flown to Rome for treatment. Her parents, Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth, wanted specialists to keep treating her but have lost fights in the high court and court of appeal in London.

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