‘Keeping baby Charlie alive is futile’

The guardian of a baby with a rare life-threatening condition says keeping him alive is ‘futile’ – despite his parents raising more than £1.2million for experimental treatment in the US. Doctors want to turn off eight-month-old Charlie Gard’s life support so he can die with dignity following his diagnosis with mitochondrial depletion syndrome at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). His parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard, of Bedfont, west London, are battling to take him to the United States for…