Alfie Evans’ parents needed help. The vultures came instead | Gaby Hinsliff

As if the heartbreak over the fate of their son was not enough, the vulnerable couple became the focus of activists with their own agendasFanatical. Deluded. Emotive nonsense. These are unusually strong terms for a judge to use, particularly in a case as intensely sad and bitterly contested as that of the terminally ill child Alfie Evans. Yet Mr Justice Hayden, referring to some of the campaigners now surrounding Alfie’s parents, did not mince his words, after this most hellish of ethical