Single mother loses Supreme Court fight to keep brain-damaged five-year-old Pippa Knight alive after judges ruled life support treatment should end Pippa Knight is in a vegetative state at the Evelina Children’s Hospital in London Her mother Paula Parfitt wanted the five-year-old to leave hospital for homecare But the doctors treating Pippa said that her … Read more
A single mother today lost her legal bid to keep her brain-damaged daughter alive after Court of Appeal judges ruled her life support treatment should end. Paula Parfitt, 41, of Strood, Kent, thinks five-year-old Pippa Knight should leave hospital and wants specialists to stage a home-care trial. Doctors treating Pippa, who is in a vegetative state at … Read more
Doctors can switch off brain-damaged five-year-old Pippa Knight’s life support, High Court judge rules Pippa’s mother Paula Parfitt had wanted her daughter to be kept alive by doctors Mr Justice Poole heard from hospital bosses the girl should be allowed to die He sided with them to overrule Ms Parfitt’s wishes to say treatment could … Read more
A cyclist could be awarded up to £50,000 after successfully suing a woman when her dog ran in front of him, causing a crash which left him brain damaged. David Crane says he suffered a brain haemorrhage when he flew over the handlebars after braking to avoid Carina Read’s cocker spaniel on Acton Green Common … Read more
Baby girl is left brain-damaged after hospital allowed mid-wife who was ‘banned for incompetence’ to help deliver her A baby girl was left with cerebral palsy after a midwife banned delivered her Barts Health Trust in London admitting legal responsibility for the blunders Sophie Addo, 58, was ‘excluded’ from working in the hospital just days earlier … Read more