Daughter in coma for 16 years... but Italian health chiefs refuse family's wish to turn off life support

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Eluana Englaro, 35, has been in an irreversible coma since a car crash in 1992.

Her father Beppe Englaro has been campaigning for the past nine years to have the machine keeping her alive turned off.

Eluana Englaro has been in an irreversible coma since the car crash in 1992

Two months ago, a court ruled that the life-support system should be closed down, triggering accusations of euthanasia 'through the back door'.

Eluana is in a clinic in Lecco, near Milan. Carlo Lucchina, head of Lombardy health authority, said doctors would contravene 'professional duties and obligations' if they were to switch off the system.

Milan's court of appeal found in Mr Englaro's favour in July after he said his daughter had insisted she never wanted to be kept alive artificially.