A nine-month-old baby boy with permanent and irreversible brain damage can be taken off life-support treatment against his parents wishes, a High Court judge has ruled.
Mrs Justice Judd says specialists can move the boy, who is attached to a ventilator, to a palliative care regime and let him die in comfort and peace .
A doctor responsible for the baby s care said he had permanent and irreversible brain damage and told the judge that there was no prospect of any improvement .
An independent specialist said the baby was suffering and would have an unbearable existence if he remained on a ventilator.