'They are trying to KILL him' - MEP Stephen Woolfe BLASTS treatment of Alfie Evans
THERE is a “determination” to kill Alfie Evans and prevent him from going to Italy to get potentially life saving treatment, according to independent MEP for North West England Steven Woolfe.
MEP Steven Woolfe: There is a determination to KILL Alfie Evans
Alfie’s parents, Tom Evans and Kate James, have been embroiled in a legal dispute with Alder Hey Children’s Hospital for the last year.
This is after doctors there claimed there was “no hope” for him and prolonging his semi-vegetative state was “inhumane”.
Mr Woolfe, who has been assisting Alfie’s parents in their wish to take the sick toddler to Italy for treatment, said people are trying to kill the sick toddler.
Speaking to BBC Radio London, the MEP said: “What we now know is that for 25-hours after they have taken that tube out of Alfie’s mouth is he’s breathing on his own.
“For the first six hours they wouldn’t give him any water.
“They are refusing to give him any antibiotics now for a chest infection and he had no food for 25-hours.
“There is a determination to kill that child and to make sure he doesn’t get across to Italy.”
A number of campaigners support taking Alfie to Italy for treatment.
An online petition was started which asked the Queen to intervene in the Evans case and gathered over 100,000 signatures in just two days.
The petition was started on behalf of Alfie’s parents by Kayleigh Price from Birkenhead who has started two other petitions in order for people to rally around the child who needs urgent life-saving treatment.
It reads: “We the undersigned humbly petition Your Majesty for protection of life and liberty of your 23-months-old subject Alfie Evans.
“The judges in Your Majesty’s Courts have given orders to kill Alfie on an appointed hour at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool by withdrawing his life support.
“For the day and hour of that killing to be kept secret from the public to avoid any protest or hinderance and for Alfie to be detained in Alder Hey until his death - any attempt to release him to be resisted by force, and punished by imprisonment.”
Ms Price added the “cruel orders” are not authorised by any law passed in a democratic Parliament.
She describes it as a “seditious usurpation against Your Majesty and the law of the land”.
Alfie Evans’s life support was switched off last night after doctors said there was nothing more that could be done to save the toddler.