16-04-2018 22:45 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Alfie Evans' father: 'We are never going to back down'

The father of seriously ill toddler Alfie Evans has said "we are never going to back down" after he and the child's mother were told they cannot take their son to a foreign hospital.Mr Justice Hayden set a date for the 23-month-old, who is being cared for at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, to be allowed to die.On Monday, Alfie's parents, Tom Evans, 21, and Kate James, 20, asked Court of Appeal judges to rule that Alfie should be allowed to travel to a hospital in Rome.
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