Pippa Knight: Brain-damaged five-year-old girl might be able to live at home - specialist Robert Dex
A brain-damaged five-year-old girl at the centre of a life support treatment dispute might be able to live at home, a specialist has suggested.
Doctors treating Pippa Knight at the Evelina Children’s Hospital in London say life support treatment should end.
They say there is no evidence the youngster, who is in a vegetative state, will recover or improve and hospital bosses have asked a judge to rule that ending life support treatment would be lawful.
Pippa’s mother, Paula Parfitt, 41, of Strood, Kent, disagrees and wants doctors to allow her to be treated at home.
By Press Association 2021
Akhmedov court case
A divorcee trying to get her hands on £450 million she is owed by her Russian billionaire ex-husband and her eldest son have traded blows during the latest round of a High Court fight.
Tatiana Akhmedova, 48, says her ex-husband, 65-year-old businessman Farkhad Akhmedov, has hidden assets and has accused their 27-year-old son, Temur Akhmedov of acting as his father’s “lieutenant”.
Ms Akhmedova, who is from Russia but lives in London, says he has helped his father hide assets and owes her nearly £70 million.
Lawyers representing Ms Akhmedova have told a judge overseeing the dispute that Temur Akhmedov is an “extraordinarily dishonest” individual.
By Press Association 2021
Akhmedov court case
A divorcee trying to get her hands on £450 million she is owed by her Russian billionaire ex-husband and her eldest son have traded blows during the latest round of a High Court fight.
Tatiana Akhmedova, 48, says her ex-husband, 65-year-old businessman Farkhad Akhmedov, has hidden assets and has accused their 27-year-old son, Temur Akhmedov of acting as his father’s “lieutenant”.
Ms Akhmedova, who is from Russia but lives in London, says he has helped his father hide assets and owes her nearly £70 million.
Lawyers representing Ms Akhmedova have told a judge overseeing the dispute that Temur Akhmedov is an “extraordinarily dishonest” individual.
Hospital can let Catholic man die against family wishes, court rules
The man has been left in a coma since suffering a cardiac arrest
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A middle-aged Catholic man who was left in a coma after a cardiac arrest can be allowed to die despite his mother’s objections, a High Court judge has ruled.
Judge visits brain-damaged girl at centre of High Court life-support dispute
PA
15 December 2020, 12:18 pm
A High Court judge asked to decide whether a brain-damaged five-year-old girl who is in a vegetative state should be allowed to die has visited the youngster in hospital.
Doctors treating Pippa Knight at the Evelina Children’s Hospital in London say life-support treatment should end.
Hospital bosses have asked Mr Justice Poole to rule that ending treatment, and allowing Pippa to die, would be lawful and in the girl’s best interests.
Pippa’s mother, Paula Parfitt, 41, of Strood, Kent, disagrees.
Pippa Knight legal case