Judges in the European Court of Human Rights have rejected a plea from the parents of terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard to intervene in the case.
Chris Gard and Connie Yates, who are in their 30s and come from Bedfon, wanted 10-month-old Charlie Gard, who suffers from a rare genetic condition and has brain damage, to undergo a therapy trial in America.
But specialists at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, where Charlie is being cared for, say the therapy proposed by a doctor in the US is experimental and will not help the child.
After losing legal battles in the UK courts the couple then took their fight to the Strasbourg judges.
On Tuesday the ECHR announced the application to the court by the parents was "inadmissible" and said their decision was "final".
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