Posted on 04/29/2018 10:03:01 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Alfie Evans' father spent last 10 minutes of his son's life desperately trying to revive him with mouth-to-mouth, family reveals, as supporters claim they have seen tragic boy's face in a cloud
Alfie Evans' dad battled to keep his son alive with mouth-to-mouth before being forced to accept he could not save him, it has emerged.
Family members have revealed how Tom, 21, was 'blowing and blowing' as he tried to resuscitate Alfie for ten minutes in the early hours of Saturday.
The 23-month-old who was at the centre of a legal battle by his parents to take him out of the UK for treatment died at about 2.30am.
Alfie's parents Tom and Kate James, 20, spent their final moments as a family lying in bed with their son, falling asleep together after he finally lost his battle against a rare degenerative disease.
A relative told the Mirror: 'It had been a really hard day as Alfie had been struggling to breathe from the early morning.
'He picked up and we thought everything was going to be OK.
'But at around 1.30am we got a call telling us to get back to the hospital.'
Meanwhile, more than one thousand mourners gathered to pay their respects after the news of his tragic death was revealed over Facebook.
As his parents, Tom and Kate, both from Liverpool, mourned inside Alder Hey Hospital, family members, friends and supporters consoled one another outside.
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Again, the comments at the UK Daily Mail are all pro-hospital. The other comments are thumbed down. Perhaps even conservatives in the UK are more liberal and accept this government overreach. Maybe it’s all liberals commenting. The arrogance of the comments where people say things like the parents couldn’t accept the inevitable or they shouldn’t have been at the hospital but not in Italy either as he should have died at home are amazing. Who are these people to tell these parents what to do with their child? They didn’t have to pay for it. Italy would have handled it. It’s easy to say those things when it isn’t your own child. These parents had a right to give their son a chance. If these people were right that he was marching to death, then guess what? He’d have died in Italy.
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