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Jess Glass, PA & Sonia Sharma

Baby left brain damaged after bath tragedy can have ventilator removed, judge rules

A "much-loved" one-year-old boy who was found face down in the bath after his mother left the room to fetch a towel can have his ventilator removed, a High Court judge has ruled.

In what Mr Justice Hayden described as "a tragedy of almost immeasurable dimension", the boy - known only as H - sustained a "profound" brain injury in June last year.

During a three-day hearing earlier this month, the court heard that while the boy was wearing an inflatable device in the bath, his mother left the room to get a towel.

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