Alfie Evans:an Emergency High Court Hearing Taking Place Now.

[ladybirder]

Parents have an aircraft standing by to take him to Italy. He's now been breathing on his own for almost 24 hours. This needs the judgement of Solomon.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5650177/Alfie-Evans-clinging-life-Adler-Hey-hospital-removes-life-support.html

[Bathsheba]

Bednobs, I'm so so sorry.
~Baths~

[scooping]

The parents should be allowed to take him to Rome. How could that hurt the child?

[anneasquith]

Medical/ hospital staff are unable to comment on this situation( to protect the child) which is right and proper. So ultimately only " one side" of the issue is ever made known to the general public .

[scooping]

Surely it should be up to the parents. Simple.

[anotheoldgit]

spathiphyllum
/// The child isn't property of the parents, he is his own entity ///

What a silly thing to say, the little lad can't have his say, he is more the property of the parents than either the doctors or the state.

Even if they find that nothing can be done for him in Rome at least the parents know they have tried their best for the poor little mite.

[anneasquith]

Stop describing the parents as uneducated an not knowledgeable.

[THECORBYLOON]

SPATH, on 20.2.18 in his High Court decision, the Judge said of the father,

"His knowledge of the paperwork and the medical records was prodigious. His understanding of the functioning of the brain and his exploration of competing hypothesis was remarkable. At one point in the evidence
when he had asked a question of particular complexity I asked him if somebody had
been providing the questions for him. He told me, entirely convincingly, that he had written it out a moment or two before. His uncle, sitting next to him, confirmed it.
F left school at 16. He served an apprenticeship as a plasterer. It says much about his commitment to his son and the time and energy he has directed to this case that he has absorbed the issues so completely and intelligently."

[naomi24]

It’s such a difficult one. I remember a similar case a few years ago when doctors gave up hope on a child and his parents, to a great deal of criticism, mine included, whisked him off for treatment abroad …. and it succeeded. We were all wrong.

Spath, if he is taken to Italy the taxpayer won't be footing the bill.

[naomi24]

spath, you did say "Imagine the financial burden that'd have", so you clearly do care that the burden might fall upon the public purse. It won't.

[naomi24]

Spath, what do you think of the case I spoke about at 12:30?