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Indi Gregory loses her fight for life: 'Angry and heartbroken' parents who fought to continue treatment for the terminally-ill eight-month-old say she has passed away after 'the NHS took away her chance to live'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12742237/Indi-Gregory-loses-fight-life-Parents-fought-legal-battle-save-reveal-eight-month-old-passed-away-life-support-switched-off.html
A critically ill baby at the centre of a legal argument over her treatment has died after having her breathing tube removed.
Eight-month-old Indi Gregory, who had an incurable genetic mitochondrial condition, had been involved in several High Court and Court of Appeal cases.
Judges ruled she should die but last week Italy stepped in and made her a citizen in a last-minute legal bid to bring her to a Rome hospital for treatment.
But on Friday that attempt failed, and her parents Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth were told that her breathing tube would be removed.
She was moved from the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham (QMC) to a hospice where she died in the early hours of today in her mother's arms.
Her father Dean said: 'Indi's life ended at 01.45am. My wife Claire and I are angry, heartbroken and ashamed.
'The NHS and the courts not only took away her chance to live a longer life, but they also took away Indi's dignity to pass away in the family home where she belonged.
'They managed to take Indi's body and dignity, but they will never be able to take her soul.
'They tried to get rid of Indi without anybody knowing, but we made sure she would be remembered forever. I knew she was special from the day she was born. Claire held her for her final breaths.'
The heartbroken parents failed to persuade High Court and Court of Appeal judges in London and judges at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, to keep her on life-support machines and have her transferred to a Vatican children's hospital in Rome.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12742237/Indi-Gregory-loses-fight-life-Parents-fought-legal-battle-save-reveal-eight-month-old-passed-away-life-support-switched-off.html
A critically ill baby at the centre of a legal argument over her treatment has died after having her breathing tube removed.
Eight-month-old Indi Gregory, who had an incurable genetic mitochondrial condition, had been involved in several High Court and Court of Appeal cases.
Judges ruled she should die but last week Italy stepped in and made her a citizen in a last-minute legal bid to bring her to a Rome hospital for treatment.
But on Friday that attempt failed, and her parents Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth were told that her breathing tube would be removed.
She was moved from the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham (QMC) to a hospice where she died in the early hours of today in her mother's arms.
Her father Dean said: 'Indi's life ended at 01.45am. My wife Claire and I are angry, heartbroken and ashamed.
'The NHS and the courts not only took away her chance to live a longer life, but they also took away Indi's dignity to pass away in the family home where she belonged.
'They managed to take Indi's body and dignity, but they will never be able to take her soul.
'They tried to get rid of Indi without anybody knowing, but we made sure she would be remembered forever. I knew she was special from the day she was born. Claire held her for her final breaths.'
The heartbroken parents failed to persuade High Court and Court of Appeal judges in London and judges at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, to keep her on life-support machines and have her transferred to a Vatican children's hospital in Rome.
