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Alfie Evans was given 4 drugs just before he died: report
LifeSite News ^ | May 1, 2018 | Dorothy Cummings McLean

Posted on 05/01/2018 2:28:52 PM PDT by ebb tide

UK toddler Alfie Evans allegedly died within hours of receiving four different drugs from a nurse at Alder Hey hospital, Italian media is reporting. The information that Alfie was given four injections has also been obtained by LifeSiteNews from two different sources with connections to the Evans family. 

Alfie Evans died in Liverpool’s Alder Hey children’s hospital on Saturday morning at 2:30 AM. According to Italian newspaper La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, a nurse entered the child’s cubicle after his father Tom had been called aside and gave him four drugs. A source close to the family told LifeSiteNews that these were injections that were administered to Alfie after Tom had been summoned for an unusual middle-of-the-night meeting with the hospital. The child died two hours later.

It remains unclear why the alleged injections were given. The Evans family did not respond to LifeSiteNews’ request for comment. 

Medical advisors to LifeSiteNews said they could not understand why the child would be given four separate drugs. One or two drugs could be explained as an attempt to sedate the child or administer painkillers, if he were in distress. Four, however, seemed to them mysterious. They recommend that an independent toxicology report be performed.

Alder Hey hospital doctors had previously conveyed to the Evans’ family in a legal document how they intended to use a drug cocktail that included Midazolam and Fentanyl as part of Alfie’s “end of life care plan.” Side effects of the drugs included respiratory depression. Tom Evans called it an “execution plan” for his son. 

On the night of Monday, April 23, Alfie was suddenly removed from a ventilator and his life-supporting tubes. He had been on the ventilator for 15 months, and was unused to breathing on his own. He also had a lung infection, which would have required antibiotics to heal. Nevertheless, he managed to breathe independently, and continued to do so for more than 100 hours.  

Tom Evans argued that the court order leading to Alfie’s extubation did not extend to depriving the child of oxygen and nutrition, and the child was permitted low levels of oxygen and, after 36 hours without nutrition, was fed.   

La Nuova Bussola states that Alfie was given more life support in exchange for his father Tom’s promise not to speak any more to the press. 

The day prior to Alfie’s death, Tom Evans read to the press outside the hospital what is now being called by many a “hostage letter.” In what appeared to be a forced statement, Tom read out a letter calling all the supporters of Alfie to go home and resume their lives. He thanked the hospital staff for their care of Alfie, even though just hours earlier he had attempted to have them charged with conspiracy to murder his son. He also praised the hospital staff for their dignity and professionalism, even though the day before he said they were treating his son worse than an animal and felt like he was in a jail.

“To silence the press, the hospital promised Thomas more oxygen and more life-support,” Frigerio continued. “Two hours before death, [Alfie’s] oxygen saturation was at around 98, and Alfie’s heartbeat was around 160, so Thomas was convinced that he would be allowed to go home (as the hospital administration had told him on Friday afternoon).” 

However, it is alleged that the child’s health declined rapidly after a nurse gave him four injections.

“Before he died, while Tom was away for a moment, leaving Kate [Alfie’s mother] half-asleep and another family member in the room, a nurse entered and explained that she would give the child four drugs (no-one knows which) to treat him,” Frigerio wrote. 

She continued: “After about 30 minutes the [oxygen] saturation had fallen to 15. After two hours Alfie was dead.” 

The  Nuova Bussola reporter, who was material in setting up an appointment between Tom Evans and Pope Francis, observed that she could not be sure that Alfie’s life ended only because he was removed from life-support. 


TOPICS: Apologetics; Religion & Culture; Religion & Science
KEYWORDS: alderhey; alfie; alfiedeath; alfiedrugs; murder; prolife; uk
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1 posted on 05/01/2018 2:28:52 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

Their goal was a dead child and NOBODY was going to deny them.


2 posted on 05/01/2018 2:32:29 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: ebb tide

Sounds like they gave Alfe a lethal injection. He was executed or at least euthanized.


3 posted on 05/01/2018 2:33:03 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: ebb tide

I wonder if the “nurse” was named Mohammad.


4 posted on 05/01/2018 2:33:10 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: ebb tide
MURDERERS!......................
5 posted on 05/01/2018 2:33:28 PM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: Menehune56

They murdered him.....................


6 posted on 05/01/2018 2:33:57 PM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: Menehune56

I don’t see a difference between executed or euthanized.


7 posted on 05/01/2018 2:35:53 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: ebb tide

There are people among us that have no conscience.


8 posted on 05/01/2018 2:39:30 PM PDT by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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To: ebb tide
La Nuova Bussola states that Alfie was given more life support in exchange for his father Tom’s promise not to speak any more to the press.

That is a pretty troubling statement. A little bit of life (measured in extra hours) in exchange for freedom of speech.

9 posted on 05/01/2018 2:40:10 PM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: ebb tide

For free?


10 posted on 05/01/2018 2:42:50 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: ebb tide
Check for Phenol. During more enlightened times, the Party's T-4 Aktion got rid of "Ebensunwertes Leben", life unworthy of life, with Phenol injections...
11 posted on 05/01/2018 2:44:48 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: ebb tide

They gave him something to kill him off..this is what they do to children under single payer..when they become too much of a “Burden” and they won’t die quickly enough they will just inject something to finish them off..its sick, and its what the left wants to bring here


12 posted on 05/01/2018 2:44:55 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: ebb tide

MURDER!


13 posted on 05/01/2018 2:45:12 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ebb tide

Was Alfie at least given a chance to have a last meal, to say goodbye to his parents or the opportunity to utter his words? Good Lord this young child was executed in the name of British socialized medicine!


14 posted on 05/01/2018 2:48:02 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: ebb tide

Stop food and water... give 4 shots... hit over the head with a baseball bat... stab a knife thru his chest. What’s the diff?


15 posted on 05/01/2018 2:48:03 PM PDT by Marchmain (hagan lio?!?)
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To: dowcaet

Last words!


16 posted on 05/01/2018 2:49:01 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Menehune56

Just like the NAZIS Death Camps.


17 posted on 05/01/2018 2:49:56 PM PDT by carmen2017
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To: ebb tide

Liberals are evil scum.


18 posted on 05/01/2018 2:57:40 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Red Badger

Yep.


19 posted on 05/01/2018 3:11:20 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: ebb tide; All

http://www.lifenews.com/2018/05/01/alfie-evans-family-refutes-newspaper-report-claiming-alfie-was-given-four-unknown-drugs-just-before-he-died/


20 posted on 05/01/2018 3:16:51 PM PDT by BackRoads775
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