Doctors can lawfully stop providing life-support treatment to 12-year-oldArchie Battersbee, who is in a comatose state after suffering “catastrophic” brain damage three months ago, appeal judges have ruled.
Judges had been asked to postpone the ruling but refused. A lawyer representing Archie’s parents said his mother, Hollie Dance, thought her son had been trying to breathe independently.
Judges were also told that Archie’s father had been taken ill shortly before the appeal court hearing and had gone to hospital, but the judges did not allow this to delay their ruling.
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