Theresa May says her condolences are with family of Alfie Evans

Prime Minister Theresa May has said her condolences are with the family of Alfie Evans - but she believes medical experts should be the ones to make decisions in cases such as his.

Speaking on a visit to Brooklands Primary School in Sale, Greater Manchester, Mrs May was asked if she would support an Alfie's Law, proposed by North West MEP Steven Woolfe, which would give parents of terminally-ill children more say in end-of-life hospital care.

The 23-month-old died on Saturday after his life support treatment was withdrawn on Monday following a long-running legal battle.

Alfie's parents, Tom Evans and Kate James, opposed withdrawing life support from the youngster, who had a degenerative brain disease, and wanted to take him abroad for treatment.

An increasingly acrimonious six-month battle with Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool saw medical staff allegedly targeted, a mob try to storm the hospital doors and a series of failed legal tussles in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights.

Successive judges agreed Alfie had been given "world-class" healthcare by Alder Hey but his brain was so damaged that further treatment was "futile" and it was in his best interests to withdraw life support, against his parents' wishes.