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Neil Shaw

Parents of five-month-old baby lose latest court battle over life-support

The parents of a brain-damaged baby who tried to breathe after being diagnosed as dead have lost the latest stage of a life-support treatment fight.

A High Court judge on Wednesday ruled that ending life-support treatment was lawful and in the five-month-old boy’s best interests.

Mr Justice Poole, who had reconsidered evidence at the latest in a series of hearings in the Family Division of the High Court in London, concluded that treatment was “futile”.

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