Charlie Gard can only be cared for in a hospital setting, the court was told PRESS ASSOCIATIONCharlie Gard’s mother was back in court today, locked in a new battle over whether she can bring her terminally ill baby home to die. Yesterday Connie Yates and Chris Gard abandoned their legal action to take 11-month-old Charlie to the US for treatment. They accepted that it was now “too late” as his muscles had deteriorated to a point where treatment would have no benefit. Grant Armstrong, the barrister for the parents, accused Great Ormond Street Hospital of standing in the way of their final wish to take Charlie — who has a rare genetic condition — home. On the one hand, he told the High Court, the hospital says that “it won’t stand in the parents’ way yet it is putting obstacles in…

Source: The Times July 25, 2017 15:56 UTC