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his final days at home were “small”.

Charlie’s parents have become embroiled in a fight with doctors over the circumstances of his death, a day after abandoning attempts to persuade a judge to let him travel to America for experimental treatment.

Mr Justice Francis presided over the dispute at a hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London yesterday, and the hearing is scheduled to resume at 2pm today.

The judge said the dispute cried out for settlement.

But he said if a solution could not be agreed, he would decide today.

Barrister Victoria Butler-

“Given the gravity of the situation we are inandtheneedtobe human, I will allow anotherday. Iwill make a final decision tomorrow”

MR JUSTICE FRANCIS