‘It’s a lie’ sobs mother of life support baby

A mother who raised £1.2m to take her gravely ill baby to the US for pioneering treatment broke down in court and cried ‘it’s a lie’ when a doctor claimed her son barely has any brain function left. 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…