Alfie Evans petition (Picture: Change.org)

A petition has been launched for the Queen to protect the life of Alfie Evans after a High Court judge said doctors could turn off his life-support.

Nearly 75,000 people have signed the request after the 23-month-old boy’s life-support machine was turned off at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool on Monday night.

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The petition, started by Kayleigh Price, said: ‘As your people, we implore you to urgently intervene. If her Majesty the Queen does not intervene in some way, we will take this as though she accepts that what is happening to her people in this country is OK.’



Alfie’s parents, Tom Evans and Kate James, who are both in their early 20s and from Liverpool, asked for a delay, but the judge refused the application following a long battle.


Around 200 people protested outside the hospital yesterday afternoon.

The petition stated: ‘We the undersigned humbly petition Your Majesty for protection of life and liberty of your 23-month-old subject Alfie Evans. The judges in Your Majesty’s Court have given orders: to kill Alfie on an appointed hour at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool by withdrawing his life support.

Alfie was taken off life-support on Monday (Picture: Facebook)

Over 200 people protested outside the hospital on Monday (Picture: PA)

‘For the day and hour of that killing to be kept secret from the public to avoid any protest or hindrance; For Alfie to be detained in Alder Hey until his death – any attempt to release him to be resisted by force, and punished by imprisonment.

‘These cruel orders are not authorized by any law ever passed in a democratic Parliament. Instead, the said judges pretend to exercise Your Majesty’s ancient autocratic jurisdiction over the life and death of your subjects.

‘As loyal subjects, we refuse to believe that Your Majesty would ever command such evil deeds to be done; and we denounce Alfie’s death sentence and imprisonment as a seditious usurpation against Your Majesty and the law of the land. There is no time to spare anymore.

‘We shall patiently await Your Majesty’s royal protection and justice; and in the meantime, Alfie’s Army and the good people of Liverpool will not sit back and allow this to happen.

‘I can not stop them from now joining up and demonstrating outside Alder Hey again to do their utmost to defend Alfie against all those who prepare to take his life in the next 24 hours.’

His father Tom Evans outside Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital this morning (Picture: PA)

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One person who signed the petition commented: ‘I’m signing this because it is murder.’

While another one said: ‘Alfie needs to be given the right to live.’

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Alfie’s dad Tom Evans said his son had survived his first night without life-support, telling reporters outside the hospital on Tuesday morning: ‘He is still working, he’s doing as good as he can.

‘But we do need him to be supported… in the next hour it’s going to be hard but we will need him to be supported in the next hour or two.’

A High Court judge is set to oversee a further hearing on Alfie Evans’ case in the next few hours.



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