Doctors can stop providing life-support treatment to a five-year-old girl who has suffered brain damage and is in a vegetative state, a High Court judge has ruled.
Specialists treating Pippa Knight, from Strood, Kent, at the Evelina Children's Hospital in London said her life-support treatment should end.
Pippa's mother, Paula Parfitt, 41, disagreed. She wants Pippa to be placed on a portable ventilator and allowed home. Hospital bosses had asked Mr Justice Poole to rule that ending treatment, and allowing Pippa to die, would be lawful and in her best interests.
Mr Justice Poole, who heard evidence at a trial in the Family Division of the High Court in London in December, ruled on Friday that life-support treatment should end and Pippa
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