However, Indi’s parents, Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth, want her treatment to continue, saying she is responsive to them and has deteriorated due to a treatable infection.
Neither of Indi’s parents attended a hearing at the High Court in London on Wednesday, with the court being told the funding for their legal representation was due soon. Mr Justice Peel described the pair as “parents who are utterly devoted to this child and are by her bedside pretty much all the time” and said they “want to explore every possibility”.“It is hard to think of anything more traumatic and anxious and devastating for a parent than to have to deal with the situation that is facing these parents,” Mr Justice Peel said.
He continued: “It has been little short of a public scandal, in my view, that until recently parents of children in these cases have not been eligible for public funding.”Mr Justice Peel ruled a further hearing should take place in early October to determine what is in Indi’s best interests, adjourning Wednesday’s hearing.
During the hearing, Emma Sutton KC, for the NHS trust, said the seven-month-old is currently being treated with six different forms of sedatives and pain relief at the
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