Very sad all for all concerned.

Since the case where the family wanted Proton radiation and were proved right it seems that more and more people are fighting the NHS without necessarily having the facts to back their case.

The similar case where the doctor in the USA claimed he could help for example. I have a doctor friend who told me her reading was that the baby was brain dead. The parents understandably told all sorts of lies to the court about their child's condition. The US doctor who held the copyright to "the cure" hadn't even examined the patient and when he did surprise surprise he couldn't help just as the NHS had said all along.

We all know that doctors get it wrong but when a patient has been examined by different doctors who draw the same conclusions it's not a conspiracy. What treatment was the hospital in Italy suggesting and why did the NHS not do the same? Or was the hospital actually proposing to make the child comfortable and then pray for a miracle!

The actions of the so called supporters were disgusting and just gave the family false hope whilst impacting the running of the hospital.

I cannot imagine the pain the family are going through but a court reviewed the case in far more detail than is known to the public and decided very reluctantly that the hospital's actions were correct.

By all means challenge treatment if you think it wrong but blind faith and wishful thinking should be left with your church.

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Badger - spot on, 100% agree.

Rob - you bitter cynic.....but spot on too.

Well I think Simon's head is large; always involved in espionage. (Name that tune)

What gives the courts the right is acting in the best interests of the child, separate from the emotion and involvement of either the parents or the medics.

His condition was a previously unknown brain disease which is why it doesn't even have a name for diagnosis, and he was already clinically classed as brain dead. Scans had shown that 70% of his brain had dissolved to fluid already when the hospital sought permission from the courts to turn off the life support.

Even the specialist who flew over from the Vatican hospital (along with all the others who examined him) agreed that the child could not be saved - only have his bodily existence prolonged by being kept on ventilation with a feeding tube until such time as the last remaining 30% of his brain turned to fluid, as 70% had already done. They also agreed that transferring him by aircraft could cause him to convulse, possibly fatally.

It was the Catholic religious group legal advisors who kept on and on making the family appeal - and whilst not all evidence presented to the courts was made public, the three tiers of the British judiciary as well as the European courts all agreed, several times each, that moving him was not in the child's best interests.

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Spot on. It’s a very sad story of which there will be many sad, sometimes similar cases happening up and down the country every day. This story just caught the attention of the media and then the red top reading angry mob latch onto as it gives them something to rage about.

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No doctor will condemn a child to death if there was a known cure for the condition... unfortunately nature has taken its course. My heart goes out to the parents but it should not have got turned into the circus that it has become. Lessons must be learned from all this.