Doctors have been allowed to stop providing life support to Alfie Evans.
The Liverpool toddler was at the centre of a legal battle after undergoing treatment at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital since December 2016.
Alfie’s parents Tom Evans and Kate James had fought to prolong his life from a degenerative brain condition by transferring him to a hospital in Rome.
Thousands of people across Merseyside had given their backing to the family’s fight for their son’s life as part of ‘Alfie’s Army’.
But a High Court judge ruled in Alder Hey’s favour on Tuesday, allowing them to withdraw the 21-month-old’s ventiatlion support as early as the end of the week.
Mr Justice Hayden said: “I am satisfied that continued ventilatory support is no longer in Alfie’s interests.”
The ruling came after a hearing in Liverpool earlier this month in which Mr Evans as well as lawyers and doctors acting on the hospital’s behalf provided evidence.
Justice Hayden added: “What Alfie needs now is good quality palliative care which will keep him as comfortable as possible while sustaining his life.
“He requires peace, quiet, stability, so that he may conclude his life as he has lived it.”