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The critically ill baby, Charlie Gard, has been at the centre of a legal fight that has progressed through the UK courts, to the European court of human rights and back to the high court, with his parents forced to suffer months of anguish as they fought to save their child. The critically ill baby Charlie Gard has been at the centre of a legal fight that has progressed through the UK courts, to the European court of human rights and back to the high court, with his parents forced to suffer months of anguish as they fought to save their child.
4 August 2016 – Charlie Gard is born a “perfectly healthy” baby at full term and at a “healthy weight”. 2016
September 2016 – His parents notice he is less able to lift his head and support himself than other babies of a similar age. Doctors discover that he has a rare inherited disease – infantile onset encephalomyopathy mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MDDS). 4 August
October 2016 – Charlie has become lethargic and his breathing is shallow. He is transferred to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London on 11 October. Charlie Gard is born a “perfectly healthy” baby at full term and at a “healthy weight”.
January 2017 – A crowdfunding page is set up to help finance trial therapy in the United States. September
3 March 2017 – Great Ormond Street bosses ask the high court judge, Mr Justice Francis, to rule that life-support treatment should stop. His parents notice he is less able to lift his head and support himself than other babies of a similar age. Doctors discover that he has a rare inherited disease – infantile onset encephalomyopathy mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MDDS).
11 April – The judge says doctors can stop providing life-support treatment after analysing the case at a hearing in the family division of the high court. October
3 May – Charlie’s parents ask three court of appeal judges to consider the case but less than three weeks later their appeal is dismissed. Charlie has become lethargic and his breathing is shallow. He is transferred to Great Ormond Street hospital for children in London on 11 October.
8 June – Charlie’s parents lose their fight in the supreme court. 2017
20 June – The case proceeds to the European court of human rights but a week later it is announced that the European judges have refused to intervene. A Great Ormond Street spokeswoman says there will be “no rush” to change Charlie’s care and says there will be “careful planning and discussion”. January
30 June – It is thought that Charlie’s life-support is due to be switched off but his parents say that Great Ormond Street doctors have agreed to “give us a little bit more time” with Charlie. They ask for privacy “while we prepare to say the final goodbye”. A crowdfunding page is set up to help finance trial therapy in the United States.
2-3 July – Pope Francis and the US president Donald Trump intervene; the former calling for the couple to be allowed to “accompany and treat their child until the end”, saying he has followed the case with “affection and sadness”. 3 March
4 July – Bambino Gesu, the Vatican’s children’s hospital in Rome, offers to take Charlie in. Great Ormond Street hospital bosses ask the high court judge, Mr Justice Francis, to rule that life-support treatment should stop.
10 July – Charlie’s parents return to the high court and ask Mr Justice Francis to carry out fresh analysis of the case. The judge says he will consider any new evidence. 11 April
17 July – Dr Michio Hirano, the New York neurology professor who offered to treat Charlie, travels to London to examine the little boy, discuss the case with Great Ormond Street doctors and other clinicians and examine fresh scans. The judge says doctors can stop providing life-support treatment after analysing the case at a hearing in the family division of the high court.
21 July – The lawyer representing Great Ormond Street says the new scan makes for “sad reading”. 3 May
22 July – Great Ormond Street chairwoman Mary MacLeod says doctors and nurses have been subjected to abuse in the street and received thousands of threatening messages. Charlie’s parents had previously urged people not to send abuse to Great Ormond Street staff. Charlie’s parents ask three court of appeal judges to consider the case but less than three weeks later their appeal is dismissed.
24 July – The judge’s decision was initially expected the next day but a lawyer representing Charlie’s parents say they are ending their legal fight over his treatment. 8 June
Charlie’s parents lose their fight in the supreme court.
20 June
The case proceeds to the European court of human rights but a week later it is announced that the European judges have refused to intervene. A Great Ormond Street spokeswoman says there will be “no rush” to change Charlie’s care and says there will be “careful planning and discussion”.
30 June
It is thought that Charlie’s life-support is due to be switched off but his parents say that Great Ormond Street doctors have agreed to “give us a little bit more time” with Charlie. They ask for privacy “while we prepare to say the final goodbye”.
2-3 July
Pope Francis and the US president, Donald Trump, intervene; the former calling for the couple to be allowed to “accompany and treat their child until the end”, saying he has followed the case with “affection and sadness”.
4 July
Bambino Gesu, the Vatican’s children’s hospital in Rome, offers to take Charlie in.
10 July
Charlie’s parents return to the high court and ask Mr Justice Francis to carry out fresh analysis of the case. The judge says he will consider any new evidence.
17 July
Dr Michio Hirano, the New York neurology professor who offered to treat Charlie, travels to London to examine the little boy, discuss the case with Great Ormond Street doctors and other clinicians and examine fresh scans.
21 July
The lawyer representing Great Ormond Street says the new scan makes for “sad reading”.
22 July
Great Ormond Street chairwoman Mary MacLeod says doctors and nurses have been subjected to abuse in the street and received thousands of threatening messages. Charlie’s parents had previously urged people not to send abuse to Great Ormond Street staff.
24 July
The judge’s decision was initially expected the next day but a lawyer representing Charlie’s parents say they are ending their legal fight over his treatment.