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At the last moment, a Court of Appeal judge has given Indi's family permission to appeal where life-support can be removed, and, it is understood, could also consider the Italian intervention in the case. 

This afternoon, Mr Justice Robert Peel has ruled that Indi Gregory's life-support must be removed at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham or a hospice and not at home, contrary to the wishes of her parents. 

At the request of Indi Gregory's family, the Italian consul in Manchester, Dr Matteo Corradini, in his capacity as guardianship judge for the 8-month-old, has today issued an emergency measure recognising the authority of the Italian courts in this case.

As news breaks in Italy that the Italian government has made Indi Gregory an Italian citizen, the family's lawyers are making an urgent application to the High Court after staff at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham threatened to end her life-support in a move that would go against an agreed Care Plan. 

On a Saturday morning, two Court of Appeal judges, Lady Justice Eleanor King and Lord Justice Peter Jackson, have thrown out the appeal of Indi Gregory’s parents without a hearing.