The parents of a brain-damaged girl will be allowed to take her abroad to continue her treatment, the UK High Court has ruled.

Five-year-old Tafida Raqeeb has been on life support at the Royal London Hospital since suffering a traumatic brain injury in February.

Her parents have organised funding to take her to the Gaslini children’s hospital in Genoa, Italy.

But UK specialists had argued any further treatment would be futile.

Bosses at Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs the hospital in Whitechapel, had asked the judge to rule that ending Tafida’s life-support was in her best interests.

Her parents said doctors in Italy would continue to treat their daughter until she was diagnosed as brain dead.

They argued that Tafida was from a Muslim family and Islamic law said only God could take the decision to end her life.