THE parents of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard have vowed to keep fighting for him to get treatment.

Connie Yates and Chris Gard spoke near Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) yesterday afternoon.

The 11-month-old’s parents have been in a protracted legal battle with hospital doctors, who said the experimental treatment the couple have argued Charlie should receive abroad will not help.

Calling for her son to be be given the medication, Yates said: “He’s our son, he’s our flesh and blood. We feel that it should be our right as parents to decide to give him a chance at life.”

She added: “There is nothing to lose, he deserves a chance.”

Yates said the oral medicine they want for Charlie has an “up to 10 per cent chance of working” and has “no known major side effects”.

Gard said there is no evidence Charlie has “catastrophic brain damage”.

He added: “He should have had this chance a long time ago now.

“He’s now been left for seven months with no treatment.”