Revealed, US medic f lying to Britain in bid to save Charlie
CHARLIE Gard’s fate will be decided in ten days’ time after a US expert agreed to fly to London to see the desperately ill baby.
Dr Michio Hirano – who can be named for the first time – believes he can save the boy’s life and is travelling to London this weekend at the judge’s invitation.
The Harvard- educated doctor, from New York, will see Charlie on Monday then meet Great Ormond Street doctors on Tuesday to argue for the experimental therapy he claims has a 56 per cent of success.
The High Court will rule on Charlie’s case on July 25, ten days before his first birthday.
In court yesterday, Charlie’s parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard exploded with frustration as the hospital said they should be excluded from the make- or-break Great Ormond Street meeting.
‘He’s our son!’ shouted Mr Gard, 32, after the hospital’s barrister Katie Gollop QC said clinicians may not be able to ‘speak freely’ with the couple present.
Dr Hirano is a world expert on the 11-month- old’s rare form of mito-