We won, we won, we won, repeated Shelina Begum in a near state of shock, and blinking back tears as Mr Justice MacDonald announced that her gravely ill daughter could travel to Italy for treatment.

It is more than two years since Shelina walked victorious from the High Court in the knowledge she was free to take Tafida Raqeeb, five, out of the Royal London Hospital and transfer her to the Gaslini Children’s Hospital in Genoa.

Tafida, now seven, remains severely disabled by bleeding on her brain caused by arteriovenous malformation, a rare and un-diagnosed condition involving an abnormal tangle of blood vessels which had ruptured.