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| Charlie Gard's mother returns to court to ask to let him die at home | Charlie Gard's mother returns to court to ask to let him die at home |
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| Charlie Gard’s mother has returned to court to plead for him to be allowed to die at home, a day after she and her husband ended their opposition to the removal of their critically ill son’s life support system. | Charlie Gard’s mother has returned to court to plead for him to be allowed to die at home, a day after she and her husband ended their opposition to the removal of their critically ill son’s life support system. |
| Charlie is expected to be removed from his ventilator at Great Ormond Street hospital in the next few days following his parents’ abandonment at an emotional high court hearing on Monday of their legal fight to be allowed to fly him to the US for experimental treatment. | Charlie is expected to be removed from his ventilator at Great Ormond Street hospital in the next few days following his parents’ abandonment at an emotional high court hearing on Monday of their legal fight to be allowed to fly him to the US for experimental treatment. |
| But the often acrimonious five-month court battle with Gosh, where the baby is being treated, took another turn on Tuesday as the parties returned to court to decide where Charlie should spend his final moments. | But the often acrimonious five-month court battle with Gosh, where the baby is being treated, took another turn on Tuesday as the parties returned to court to decide where Charlie should spend his final moments. |
| Grant Armstrong, representing the parents, said the case was returning to court for the “most difficult emotional part ... [the] circumstances in which Charlie’s passing will be conducted. The parents’ last wish is to take Charlie home. | Grant Armstrong, representing the parents, said the case was returning to court for the “most difficult emotional part ... [the] circumstances in which Charlie’s passing will be conducted. The parents’ last wish is to take Charlie home. |
| “We struggle with the difficulties the hospital has placed in the way of the parents’ wish to have a period of time, probably a relatively short period of time ... before the final act in Charlie’s short life.” | “We struggle with the difficulties the hospital has placed in the way of the parents’ wish to have a period of time, probably a relatively short period of time ... before the final act in Charlie’s short life.” |
| Katie Gollop QC, for the hospital, said the parents had, since Saturday, refused a number of offers of mediation over the issue “for reasons Great Ormond Street will never know”. | |
| She said Gosh was willing to fulfil their wishes “if it is practical, possible and safe, and in Charlie’s interests so that he comes to no harm”. | |
| The judge said the hospital had suggested a “hospice option”. | |
| Connie Yates and Chris Gard desperately want him to go home to die, but Armstrong said the hospital had raised objections, “despite having said in April that there were no obstacles to Charlie being flown to the US”. | Connie Yates and Chris Gard desperately want him to go home to die, but Armstrong said the hospital had raised objections, “despite having said in April that there were no obstacles to Charlie being flown to the US”. |
| Gollop said the previous willingness to let Charlie go to the US was based on him being accompanied by intensive care staff and the practicalities had not been finalised. She indicated that providing intensive care to Charlie outside a hospital setting was not simple. | |
| At the hearing on Monday, Yates and Gard said muscle atrophy suffered by Charlie in recent months meant the proposed nucleoside bypass therapy no longer offered him the prospect of a meaningful life. | At the hearing on Monday, Yates and Gard said muscle atrophy suffered by Charlie in recent months meant the proposed nucleoside bypass therapy no longer offered him the prospect of a meaningful life. |
| They asked for privacy in their “last precious moments” with their son. | They asked for privacy in their “last precious moments” with their son. |