Mother loses Supreme Court fight over brain-damaged five-year-old daughter’s treatment

Pippa Knight’s mother Paula Parfitt (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

A single mother who wants doctors to keep treating her brain-damaged five-year-old daughter has lost a Supreme Court fight.

Paula Parfitt, who is in her early 40s and from Strood, Kent, thinks Pippa Knight should leave hospital and wants specialists to stage a homecare trial.