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.