Parents demand more tests for brain dead boy

A baby boy who has been declared ‘brain-stem dead’ should remain on life support while further tests are carried out, the Court of Appeal heard. Four-month-old Midrar Ali’s parents Karwan Ali, 35, and Shokhan Ali, 28, are challenging the decision that his life support could lawfully end at St Mary’s Hospital in Manchester, The family’s lawyer said that British medical practice is insufficient to determine the baby has ‘irreversibly’ lost his life. Optional PET and SPECT scans should have been…