| Updated: 14:14, 21 January 2021 The mum of a brain-damaged five-year-old, told her daughter should be allowed to die, wept tears of joy as she was told a pro-life group has given its financial backing in a last gasp £100,000 court battle. Pippa Knight has been in hospital for two years and is in a vegetative state. Her mum Paula Parfitt, 41,from Strood, has been at her bedside at the Evelina Children's Hospital in London, where she is being treated. Five-year-old Pippa is being cared for in a London hospital. Pictures supplied on behalf of SPUC Medics went to court in December seeking permission to cease treating her and won the backing of Mr Justice Poole after a trial in the Family Division of the High Court in London.