The judge in the Charlie Gard case has ordered the tot will be moved to a hospice - unless his parents and Great Ormond Street Hospital can agree on another plan by noon tomorrow.

Mr Justice Francis said it is in Charlie's best interests to be moved to a hospice to die unless alternative arrangements can be made.

Minutes before Mr Justice Francis announced the decision to court, Charlie's mum Connie stormed out of the hearing in floods of tears.

She shouted, apparently at her son's court-appointed guardian: "What if this was your child? I hope you are happy with yourself."

Connie abandoned the court after a 15 minute break in which her representative and the lawyer for Great Ormond Street had a private discussion with the judge about how much time Charlie will have between leaving hospital and being extubated.

Connie and Chris abandoned attempts to persuade a judge to let him travel to America for experimental treatment two days ago.

The devastating decision, which the couple said was the "hardest thing we've ever had to do" came after a difficult five-month legal battle.

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Having taken the decision to let Charlie die, his parents have been making desperate attempts to make an arrangement that would make it possible for them to spend several days with him, away from hospital.

At stake in this final, agonising part of the legal dispute is how long Connie Yates and Chris Gard will have with their son before he dies.

The parents had been trying for several days to gain permission to take their son home, but as today's court hearing progressed it became clear that would not happen.