Baby’s life support to be stopped after ruling

A baby who suffered brain damage after being starved of oxygen when born in a car during a hailstorm should no longer receive life support treatment, a High Court judge has decided.

The little girl’s parents wanted treatment to continue but Mr Justice Peter Jackson has ruled against them after a hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in Manchester.

He said the only benefit the girl — born in January — would get from continued treatment was the “prolongation of her life by intensive medical intervention”.