Doctors painting ‘wrongly pessimistic’ image of critically ill baby – father

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The father of a critically ill baby at the centre of a life support treatment fight thinks doctors are painting a “wrongly pessimistic and bleak” picture, a judge has heard. Seven-month-old Indi Gregory’s father, Dean Gregory, told Mr Justice Peel on Monday that the little girl had “proved everyone wrong” and needed “more time”. He said: “You only get one life.” A doctor had earlier told the judge that Indi – who has mitochondrial disease, a genetic condition that saps energy from the body’s cells – was “dying”. Barrister Bruno Quintavalle, who is representing Indi’s parents, told Mr Justice Peel: “Mr Gregory believes that Indi does enjoy life and that she is able to interact with people and her environment, for example if she is crying then talking to her will make her stop, and she interacts with films on the iPad.” He added: “ would not wish Indi to be exposed to unnecessary suffering or to a burdensome existence but believes the picture being painted of her life is wrongly pessimistic and bleak.” Mr Gregory said he did not think his daughter was in pain.