Judge rules Indi’s ‘best interests’ are to die – family to appeal
from Christian Concern:
A High Court judge, Mr Justice Robert Peel, has ruled that it is in the ‘best interests’ of seven-month-old baby, Indi Gregory, to have her life-support removed.
Indi’s parents, Claire Staniforth and Dean Gregory from Derbyshire, intend to appeal the ruling and are being supported by the Christian Legal Centre and represented in court by barrister, Bruno Quintavalle.
The seven-month-old girl is battling a rare mitochondrial disease and Indi’s parents maintain that despite her disability, she is a happy baby who responds to their touch.
Indi is being treated in paediatric intensive care at the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham, where her parents and elder sisters keep vigil.
Earlier this month, her mother Claire Staniforth and Dean Gregory, who are engaged, were devastated to be informed with only 48 hours’ notice that there would be a legal hearing to determine their baby daughter’s fate.
This week, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust told a judge at a behind-closed-doors hearing at the High Court in London, that it is in Indi’s ‘best interests’ not to be given treatment to ‘sustain her life’ in the event that her condition deteriorates.
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