The parents tried and an Italian hospital offered to treat her but the UK judges insist: Baby Indi Gregory will be taken off life support on Saturday

Indi Gregory's life is coming to an end. While various media reported that she would be unplugged from life support on Monday, it could happen as soon as this Saturday after a British court rejected the parents' latest appeal to try to save the life of the 8-month-old baby who suffers from an apparently incurable disease.

According to Jacopo Coghe, spokesperson for the organization Pro Vita & Famiglia, “The parents' appeal was rejected and the appeal to the Hague Convention for his transfer to Italy was denied.”

Coghe took to X (Twitter) to criticize "The obstinacy of the English judges in wanting to end the life of this little fighter despite the availability of care at the Bambino Gesù Hospital is simply scandalous."

He later clarified that she would be taken off life support this Saturday.

According to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who promised to fight for Indi Gregory's life, “wrote a letter to the British Lord Chancellor and Minister of Justice to ask that Indi be considered Italian and entrusted to the Child Jesus of Rome, the Vatican-owned pediatric hospital that had offered to receive it.”

However, Meloni's efforts were in vain, the newspaper reported. Indi will not be transferred to Italy.

Indi suffers from a rare mitochondrial disease that causes her cells to not produce enough energy. Doctors say that continuing treatment causes unnecessary pain and it is best to end her life.

Reuters reported the details of the rejection of the parents' latest appeal, who continue to refuse to accept that their daughter will be taken off of life support.

According to the news agency, Indi's parents, Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth, lost their legal appeal to have the minor's life support removed at home and not in a hospital or hospice.

Last Wednesday, a judge ruled that life support in a hospital or hospice should be withdrawn. The parents, however, challenged the decision, arguing that they should be allowed to withdraw their daughter from life support at home, something that had previously been denied by the court.

On Friday, the UK Court of Appeal dismissed their appeal at a hearing. “The grounds of appeal are entirely without merit,” Judge Peter Jackson said as he issued the ruling.

"Although this is a legal decision, it is taken with a full awareness of the deeply sensitive question that lies at the heart of the proceedings,” said Jackson, who later explained that the stay that prevented doctors from ending Indi Gregory's treatment had come to an end.

“Claire and I are again disgusted by another one-sided decision from the judges,” Dean Gregory said in a statement provided by Christian Concern, a group that is supporting the family throughout the process. “This feels like the latest kick in the teeth, and we will not give up fighting for our daughter's chance to live until the end.”