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Life-support for Pippa Knight, 5, to stop despite mum's plea rules judge

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The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxDoctors can stop providing life-support treatment to a brain-damaged five-year-old girl, a judge has ruled.Pippa Knight has suffered brain damage and is in a vegetative state.Specialists treating her at the Evelina Children's Hospital in London said life-support treatment should end.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.But Pippa’s mum, Paula Parfitt, 41, of Strood, Kent, disagreed.She wants Pippa to be placed on a portable ventilator and allowed home.The judge heard evidence at a trial in the Family Division of the High Court in.

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