A HEARTBROKEN family have lost a High Court battle to keep their baby with the same condition as Charlie Gard on life support.
Seven-month-old Indi Gregory has mitochondrial disease, an incurable condition which drains energy from the body’s cells.
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The youngster also has a hole in her heart and had operations on her bowel and skull soon after she was born in February.
Indi’s parents Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth battled to have her life-support treatment continue while at Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham.
But hospital bosses begged the High Court to rule they could lawfully limit treatment as keeping the “dying” baby on a ventilator would “prolong matters”.
Mr Justice Peel ruled today with a “heavy heart” that medics could withdraw “invasive treatment”.
In his judgment, he said the devotion Indi’s family was “palpable” and their pain “almost unimaginable”.
Indi suffers from the same condition as Charlie Gard, who died in 2017 after his parents lost a court battle to prolong his treatment.
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