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Alfie Evans: parents' legal battle to keep son on life support

The parents of a seriously ill little boy from Liverpool are fighting a court ruling allowing medics to withdraw his life support.

23-month-old Alfie Evans has constant seizures. His parents want to take him to Rome for treatment - but doctors say it's not in his best interests.

His parents, Tom Evans and Kate James, have lost legal cases over their son in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights.

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Alfie Evans: Parents and doctors to discuss sending toddler home

The father of Alfie Evans says his son has now survived for 3 days without ventilation.

The 23 month old's life support was withdrawn on Monday.

Tom Evans wants his son to be allowed home. He told reporters he's meeting officials at Liverpool's Alder Hey hospital later to discuss that possibility:

As I sit by Alfie's bedside, every second of every day, it encourages me more and more that Alfie will live.

Alfie lives comfortably, happily, without ventilation. That must be enough for you now to consider that Alfie may prove you wrong.

– Tom Evans

Lawyers representing Alder Hey Hospital bosses said the fact that he had continued to breathe unaided might have surprised members of the public but had not surprised specialists.

Barrister Michael Mylonas QC, who led Alder Hey's legal team, said it had never been suggested that Alfie would die as soon as life-support treatment stopped.

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