A High Court judge has today ruled that doctors can lawfully stop giving life support to brain-damaged 12-year-old Archie Battersbee.
Archie suffered a devastating brain injury three months ago and doctors treating him said that continued treatment is not in his best interests and should end.
His parents, Hollie Dance, 46, and Paul Battersbee, 56, from Southend in Essex, disagree.
And a lawyer representing Archie’s parents indicated that they wanted to try to challenge Mr Justice Hayden’s ruling in the Court of Appeal.
Mr Justice Hayden, who reviewed evidence at a hearing in the Family Division of the High Court earlier this week, on Friday concluded that ending treatment was in Archie’s best interests.
He described what had happened to Archie as a ‘tragedy of immeasurable dimensions’.
