Alfie Evans update: Doctors to decide today if toddler can be taken home, his father says

The father of seriously ill toddler Alfie Evans has said doctors will decide today if his son can be taken home.

Tom Evans told reporters outside Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool that his son no longer needs to be in intensive care.

He said on Thursday morning: "We got rejected yesterday to go to Italy unfortunately. We could take it further but would that be the right thing to do, would there be more criticism?

Tom Evans holds up up an image of his son Alfie
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"So what we do today is we have a meeting with the doctors at Alder Hey and we now start asking to go home."

Tom Evans, the father of 23-month-old Alfie Evans, speaks to the media
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e added: "Alfie doesn't need intensive care anymore. Alfie is lying on the bed with one litre of oxygen going into his lungs and the rest is him.

“Some people say it's a miracle, it's not a miracle, it's a misdiagnosis."

Mr Evans said 23-month-old Alfie had been off a ventilator for three days and “there’s been no deterioration”.

He said: "He hasn't woke up, he's still a little bit weak but what we ask for is to go home to sustain his life."

Doctors will decide on Thursday if Alfie Evans is to go home
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He added that Alfie was "still fighting" and was "comfortable" and "content" with a stable heart rate.

He said Alder Hey doctors were "wrong" and added: "Alfie lives, comfortably, happily, without ventilation, without any form of ventilation.

"That must be enough for you now to consider that Alfie may prove you wrong."

Doctors say Alfie has a degenerative neurological condition that is destroying his brain and believe there is no cure and no hope for the toddler.

Alfie's parents Tom Evans and Kate James
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Mr Evans went on to say that the family had "appeals to explore".

He said: "All I ask for now is for this meeting to be a positive one and I hope to have Alfie, on the terms of mine and Alder Hey, to be home within a day or two.

"If the meeting doesn't go well today, well then I'll go back to court."

On Wednesday he and Alfie’s mother Kate James failed in a last ditch attempt to have the tot flown to Italy for treatment.

Three Court of Appeal judges rejected the latest plea from the couple after their son came off life support on Monday.

Mr Evans added: "As I sit next to Alfie's bedside, every second of every day, it encourages me more and more that he will live for 'x' amount of months, possibly years."

He said he hoped to be able to make arrangements with the hospital to get a care plan in place today and told reporters Alfie was "not suffering" and "not in pain".

It was revealed earlier on Thursday that Mr Evans has attempted to bring a private prosecution against doctors at Alder Hey for conspiracy to murder.

Lord Justice McFarlane revealed Tom Evans had made a bid to launch legal action against three doctors treating his 23-month-old son.

The medics, who cannot be named, have been accused by Mr Evans of “conspiracy to murder”.

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