Critically-ill Indi Gregory’s life support is withdrawn and she is moved from hospital to a hospice after her parents lost legal fights at the High Court and Court of Appeal

Specialists have stopped life-sustaining treatment for a seriously ill girl who has been at the center of a legal battle, a campaign organization supporting her parents said.

Eight-month-old Indi Gregory has been transferred from the Queen’s Medical Center in Nottingham to a hospice, Christian Concern said on Sunday.

Indi’s parents, Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth, have lost battles over life-sustaining treatment at the High Court and Court of Appeal in London.

High Court judge Justice Peel had ruled that restricting treatment would be lawful and would be in Indi’s best interests.

In a statement released by the group, Indi’s father said she is “fighting hard.”

Her parents were unable to convince the judges of the Court of Appeal and the judges of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, to overturn that treatment decision.

The couple also failed to transfer Indi to a hospital in Rome.

Mr Justice Peel ruled that a move to Italy would not be in India’s best interests and the Court of Appeal judges supported that decision.

Indi, born on February 24, has mitochondrial disease – a genetic condition that costs energy.

Specialists say she is dying and hospital bosses asked for a ruling that doctors could lawfully limit treatment.

Doctors say the treatment Indi is receiving causes pain and is useless. Her parents disagree and had desperately tried to have her transferred to Italy for treatment.

Mr Justice Peel dealt with evidence during closed hearings in the Family Division of the High Court in London.

He allowed journalists to be present and said Indi could be identified in reports.

The judge said the specialists involved in Indi’s care could not be named, nor could she be named the hospice to which she was transferred.

It comes just days after the Derbyshire family’s request to bring her home was rejected.

Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth made a desperate appeal after failing to convince a judge to allow her to receive end-of-life care at home.

They said they wanted specialists to stop treating eight-month-old Indi at their home in Ilkeston, Derbyshire.

A High Court judge ruled against Indi’s parents on Wednesday, concluding that stopping treatment at home would be ‘too dangerous’.

Before that, Italy has filed an urgent request with the Supreme Court to have baby Indi handed over to them so she can be treated in Rome.

There was hope that she would be transferred to the Bambino Gesù Hospital, which agreed to treat her illness, after the Italian government intervened and granted her citizenship.

The Italian consul in Manchester, Matteo Corradini, in his capacity as guardian for Indi, requested that she be allowed to travel for treatment.

The application was made at the High Court in London before Judge Robert Peel, who had heard previous assessments and each time ordered that it was in her ‘best interests’ to be allowed to die.

This was done under Article 9 of the 1996 Hague Convention, which allows a country to request assistance from another country if it considers ‘that country is best placed to assess the best interests of the child’.

Campaign organization Christian Concern, which is supporting Indi’s parents, said on Thursday the couple had made an application to the Court of Appeal regarding Indi’s end-of-life care.

Court officials said an appellate judge was considering their challenge.

Mr Justice Peel had discussed arguments relating to Indi’s end-of-life care during a private online hearing in the Family Division of the High Court.

The judge, who is based in London, said he accepted the evidence from specialists.

But Judge Peel had already ruled that specialists can lawfully limit treatment.

He concluded that such a move would be in Indi’s best interest.

Indi’s parents have been unable to convince the judges of the Court of Appeal and the judges of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, to overturn that treatment decision.

Mr Justice Peel ruled that a move to Italy would not be in India’s best interests and the Court of Appeal judges supported that decision.

Mr Justice Peel said in his ruling on Wednesday that Indi’s father “correctly and duly recognised” that his “decisions and orders” were “unaffected” by Italy’s decision to grant the little girl citizenship.

Mr Dean Gregory, Indi’s father, said last week: ‘My and Claire’s hearts go out to the Italian President and the Italian Government, and the Italian people.

‘We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and we see you as Indi’s guardian angels. The compassion and love you have shown to help our daughter get the care she needs, and the dedication you have for Indi, make us so happy.

‘But there is still an urgency to appeal to the British government to allow Indi to come to Italy before it is too late.

‘As a father, I have never asked or begged for anything in my life, but I am now pleading with the British Government to please help prevent our daughter’s life from being taken.’