08/03/2018 London News

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I'm Asad Ahmad.

The parents of a severely disabled

boy who fought doctors

at King's College Hospital

to keep their son on life support

say they feel "pure anger"

that it was removed,

and Isaiah Haastrup

was allowed to die.

The one-year-old was born

with "catastrophic" brain damage,

after mistakes by doctors.

His parents have been speaking

to Marc Ashdown about their loss.

Isaiah Haastrup's short life came

to a tragic end yesterday evening.

While he's been fighting to live,

his parents have been

fighting his hospital,

determined he should be given

every chance to survive.

He had a little

cheekiness about him.

Especially when you come

beside him and call his name,

when he open his eyes and stuff

and turn his head towards you.

That I'm going to miss, but,

right now, all I can feel

is just pure anger and...

All I know is justice

was not served - at all.

Isaiah was born at King's College

Hospital last February.

He suffered catastrophic

brain damage.

After an investigation,

King's eventually apologised

for mistakes doctors made that day.

His parents originally

accepted his prognosis,

but in April they saw signs of life

and disagreed he should

simply be allowed to die.

The hospital went to the High Court

to seek legal backing.

In November, a judge

agreed to a second opinion

from an independent expert.

In January, the court ruled life

support could be removed.

After the parents' appeals to UK

and European courts failed,

yesterday, medical support

was removed and Isaiah passed away.

King's told us they have always

actively sought to involve Isaiah's

parents in his care,

and have always acted

in his best interests.

They say the decision to apply

to the courts to remove

treatment was only taken

after careful consideration.

The parents still feel let down.

They say in court, doctors claimed

Isaiah could only breathe

for a few minutes unaided -

he actually survived

yesterday for seven hours.

They'd always argued he'd

have a chance of living

if he was weaned slowly

off life support.

These are Isaiah's

last precious moments.

Parents must be listened to more

and not just saying, well,

the doctors have spoken and looking

at the parents from a prism of

they are in grief or in pain,

they don't know what they're

doing, they're delusional.

But they allowed you to

get a second opinion?

All the judges agreed

with the hospital.

The attitude of the court is,

well, we don't care.

They are doctors,

you're not a doctor.

But we are the parents,

and we see our child.

I mean, we see him every single day.

The beauty of it is Isaiah

showed us what he can do

and that he wanted to live.

As a system, we let him down again,

even at that stage.

I think we need to review our system

we need to save more kids.

King's maintain it was always

impossible to predict how long

Isaiah could breathe

on his own and their priority

was to ensure he was

comfortable with his family.

We kept talking to him,

we kept singing to him,

to encourage him, to let him know

that we're here for him.

And he fought,

he fought all the way.

Takesha Thomas, Isaiah's mother,

speaking to Marc Ashdown.

And Louisa Preston,

this is a tragic case.

Yes, extremely upsetting for the

family, but also extremely

distressing for the hospital staff

involved in this case and obviously

there are lessons to be learned from

this. I think at the centre of this

the lesson has to be learned about

trust. Any hospital manager watching

this evening will be extremely

concerned about the fundamental

breakdown in that level of trust

between the parents and their

doctors. But we've seen many cases

like this before, melody Driscoll

another young girl being treated in

Kings, we've covered her story and

of course Charlie Gard, the case of

Charlie Gard. What they all have in

common is that parents are

questioning the notion that the

doctor knows best. As we go forward

what we have to think about is

hospital staff have to think very

much about parents being involved in

all those difficult decision-making

and making sure the parents feel

they are being listened to,

otherwise we will see many more

cases like this.

Louisa Gurski,

thank you. -- Louisa Preston, thank

you.

Police are warning that a social

media craze for cyclists to get

as close as they can to moving cars

before swerving out the way

will lead to deaths,

after footage emerged

of a teenager being hit.

The boy's mother is now supporting

a campaign to stop other

cyclists who do the same,

who also put drivers

at serious risk.

Here's Yvonne Hall.

This is the so-called game teenagers

are calling "swerve the car".

But 15-year-old Paul Belcher

pushes his luck too far

and doesn't swerve in time.

Incredibly, Paul only suffers

bruising in the collision

near St Albans in Hertfordshire.

I just didn't know if he was OK,

if he was dead, if he had broken any

bones, if anyone else had been hurt.

The impact of such a stupid game

could have been a loss of life

in so many situations.

For drivers, it's terrifying

and dangerous too.

A pregnant woman in this car had

to be treated for shock.

This is the roundabout

in Borehamwood and it's a popular

location for teenagers playing

the so-called swerving game.

You can see how busy it is and how

dangerous it would be to ride a bike

straight towards these vehicles.

But what a lot of these youngsters

probably don't realise

is their actions are being picked up

on the CCTV camera and it

could lead to prosecutions.

This is really dangerous, to get

as close to the car as possible,

usually to intimidate the driver

and it's often being recorded,

because it's something

to put on social media

to show their friends as a fun game.

Well, our message is it isn't a fun

game, it's a dangerous game

and people will end up getting

killed and seriously injured.

Here, a cyclist even swerves

towards a police car.

Officers say the number

of complaints they're getting

They're now planning

a campaign in schools

to stop more teenagers

risking theirs and

other people's lives.

Yvonne Hall, BBC London News.

Today is International Women's Day,

and as part of our series hearing

from women who help run London,

tonight we meet Metropolitan Police

Commissioner, Cressida Dick.

In an open and honest

conversation with Riz Lateef,

she tells us about her personal

feelings every time there's

a fatal stabbing in London.

But she began by explaining

what it was like

when she learned she was to be given

the country's top job in policing.

I was thrilled, I was humbled,

I was astonished and I thought

about my mum, no longer

with us, sadly.

What would your mum have said?

I think she'd have laughed.

I think she'd be amazed

that her little girl

had gone on to do this.

How did you cope in those early

days, with the canteen culture

and sexism in the Force?

It was a different age,

and I was prepared to challenge.

I stood up for what I believed in,

but I remember one of my bosses

taking me into an office very early

on and saying, "You know,

Cressida, if you fight every

battle at the parapets,

you'll get shot down and that

will be the end of you".

So I think I learned that

you can't take on absolutely

every battle head on,

but you should stand

up for yourself.

Do you ever show vulnerability?

I heard myself saying to my senior

officers the other day that we'd had

a terrible year and I knew that some

of them would be feeling

like crying and, actually,

sometimes it's good for a team

to see a boss making themselves kind

of vulnerable in that way.

In terms of the shooting

of Jean Charles de Menezes,

you were cleared of any wrongdoing.

You were in charge

of that operation.

Did you ever question your

judgment after that?

I don't think you can be

an effective operational

leader if you don't ask

yourself hard questions.

So, absolutely.

Did I think that I had made,

you know, a fundamental error

of judgment in the decisions that

I made based on the

information I had?

No, I didn't - but a terrible,

terrible thing happened,

an innocent man was killed.

Does it ever feel like a personal

failure, when you hear

of another stabbing?

Umm...

I suppose in a way...

It does.

I feel sad, of course,

for what has happened.

I feel sorry for everybody involved,

and I know that the public and media

are kind of counting each one,

and quite right too, because they're

all cherished children.

Every death is a tragedy and we

should all feel outraged by that.

What do you want your legacy to be?

I want London to be seen as a safe

city, in which people can see

that we have really taken violence

seriously and reduced the most

pernicious sorts of violence,

and that we have done everything

we can to prevent attacks.

Cressida Dick, speaking to Riz

Lateef. Now for a very different

weather forecast to the one we had

Lateef. Now for a very different

weather forecast to the one we had

exactly a week ago?

And greatly different, a lovely end

to the day and the March sunshine is

starting to get strength to it. It's

still cold enough for a touch of

frost which we will see tonight.

Partly cloudy skies, good clear

spells and even if temperatures

don't drop below freezing there will

be close enough for a touch of grass

on the -- touch of frost on the

grass. The best part of the day

early on, some sunshine in many

areas. Quickly turning hazy as cloud

drifts up through the south and late

morning. There will be some splashes

of rain towards the south of London.

It will turn heavier as we go into

the night, temperatures peaking at 9

degrees. Saturday morning, while the

start. The best of the sunshine in a

morning. More cloud into the

afternoon with one or two showers.

It's going to be incredibly mild,

the warmest day of the year so far.

Temperatures up to around 15. It

stays mild into