Girl could only lead ‘an artificial life’

A desperately ill five-year-old girl has no chance of recovery and prolonging her life would mean an ‘artificial existence,’ the High Court was told. Tafida Raqeeb is currently on life-support after blood vessels ruptured in her head in February this year, leaving her severely brain damaged. Her parents are fighting to transfer her from the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, to Gaslini in Genoa, Italy where doctors will continue life-support treatment. But Barts Health NHS Trust argue that this is…