London Court fight over baby's life support - BBC News
A mother and father are fighting a High Court battle to stop their eight-month-old son's life support machine being switched off.
Isaiah Hasstrup is brain damaged and dependent on a ventilator to keep him alive at King's College Hospital, London.
Doctors said giving him further treatment was "futile, burdensome and not in his best interests".
But father Lanre Hasstrup and mother Takesha Thomas want it to continue.
They also hope an independent assessor will be appointed to give a medical opinion.
Isaiah was born with a severe brain injury believed to have been caused by oxygen deprivation.
Doctors do not think there are any "further investigations or forms of treatment" which would benefit him, the hospital's barrister Fiona Paterson said.
She told Mr Justice MacDonald relations between hospital bosses and Isaiah's parents were "difficult".
The court heard that Mr Hasstrup, of Peckham, south London, had been barred from visiting the hospital following an incident a few days ago.
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