Alfie Evans' parents lose legal appeal for Vatican treatment

Judge urges family to engage with doctors to arrange palliative care ‘for final days or hours’

The parents of Alfie Evans have lost a legal appeal to fly their son to Vatican City in what a high court judge called “the final chapter in the case of this extraordinary little boy”.

A barrister for Tom Evans and Kate James asked Mr Justice Hayden to show “common humanity and common sense” and allow the seriously ill 23-month-old boy to leave Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool.

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