Family will fight decision to switch off boy's life support

Published date14 June 2022
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
Doctors treating Archie Battersbee at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, thought that the youngster was "brain-stem dead". They said life-support treatment should end and Archie should be disconnected from a ventilator

Archie's parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, from Southend, Essex, say the youngster's heart is still beating and want treatment to continue. Mrs Justice Arbuthnot on Monday ruled that Archie, who suffered brain damage in an incident at home in April, was dead and said doctors could lawfully stop treating...

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