A High Court judge concluded doctors could lawfully stop providing care Archie Battersbee, but his family now want the Court of Appeal to reconsider his case.
The family of Archie Battersbee are preparing to mount an appeal bid to keep him on life-support treatment after a judge ruled the youngster is dead.
Archie Battersbee, 12, was found unresponsive with a ligature around his neck at his home in Essex on April 7. He has not regained consciousness since.Mrs Justice Arbuthnot concluded doctors could lawfully stop providing care to the boy after considering evidence at theArchie’s parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, from Southend, Essex, say the youngster’s heart is still beating and want treatment to continue.
They now want Court of Appeal judges to consider the case and will ask Mrs Justice Arbuthnot to give them the go-ahead to launch an appeal.Archie’s mother, Hollie Dance, speaking outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, after the High Court judgement Archie’s mother has urged a judge to give the youngster ‘more time’ Doctors treating Archie at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, think the youngster is “brain-stem dead”.
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