Archie Battersbee

The family of a 12-year-old boy who has been in a coma for four months expects a London hospital to begin withdrawing life-sustaining treatment.

Under British law, it is common for courts to intervene when parents and doctors disagree on a child’s medical treatment. “I return to where I started, recognizing the enormity of what lays ahead for Archie’s parents and the family. The hospital said Archie’s condition was so unstable that moving him would hasten his death.

Archie's parents had fought a long-running legal battle over the withdrawal of treatment and in recent days made bids to the High Court, Court of Appeal and ...

A spokesman for the European court said it had received a request from representatives of Archie’s parents under Rule 39, which allow it to apply “interim measures” in “exceptional” cases, and that the complaints “fell outside the scope” of that rule, and so it would not intervene. In a High Court ruling on Friday morning, Mrs Justice Theis concluded it was not in Archie’s best interests to be moved to a hospice and the Court of Appeal rejected permission to appeal that decision. Ms Dance added: “It’s been really hard.

The boy was taken to the Royal London hospital with traumatic head injuries. Archie has been kept alive since then by a combination of medical interventions, ...

Candles flickered in the shape of the letter "A" and also formed a love heart around a card with Archie’s name in a makeshift tribute at a statue in front of the hospital. "The family are devastated and are spending precious time with Archie." Ms Dance added: "It's been really hard. Shelley Elias, 43, said she had come to the Royal London Hospital because "I wanted his mum Hollie and the family to know I was thinking of them". In an interview with Sky News, recorded yesterday, Hollie Dance said she is "pretty broken" and that the day had been "absolutely awful". In recent days, his mother and father, Paul Battersbee, have battled in the courts to have their son moved to hospice care.

Hollie Dance, Archie's mother and Paul Battersbee, Archie's father also lost the legal battle where they appealed the court to allow them to move their child to ...

I've just watched a Sky News clip of a presenter saying Archie's mum thinks he can be saved in Turkey or Japan and the presenter just reports it like it's a fact. Doctors wanted to conduct a brain stem death test but the boy’s family did not agree. Archie was a 12-year-old boy who was interested in mixed martial arts and gymnastics. - July 28: The Supreme Court declines to intervene in the case and extends support to the Court of Appeals ruling. The courts said earlier this year that keeping Archie alive was futile. - April 7, 2022: Hollie Dance, Archie’s mother, found Archie at their home unconscious with ligature marks around his neck.

Life support will be switched off at 10am at Royal London Hospital after last-ditch attempt to transfer him to a hospice fails.

Starved of oxygen, he was left with a catastrophic brain injury and has been on a ventilator since arriving at the Royal London in the small hours of April 8. The European court also said it would not intervene in the case. Hollie told the Daily Mail : "All I have ever asked is to get him to six months – where is the harm in that for them?

British courts Friday rejected the family's request to move the 12-year-old, who has been in a coma for four months, to a hospice.

Under British law, it is common for courts to intervene when parents and doctors disagree on a child's medical treatment. "I return to where I started, recognizing the enormity of what lays ahead for Archie's parents and the family. The hospital said Archie's condition was so unstable that moving him would hasten his death.

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Archie Battersbee, 12, has been in a coma since he was found unconscious by his mother in April. | ITV News Anglia.

5 August - Mrs Justice Theis rules it is not in Archie’s best interests to be moved to a hospice. 3 August - The European Court of Human Rights refuses the last-ditch application. 1 August - A last-minute hearing organised at the request of the health secretary. A hearing takes place at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, lasting late into the evening. 20 June - The family mount an appeal to the same judge, arguing that evidence had not shown “beyond reasonable doubt” that the youngster was dead. Once again, Archie's family say they will appeal the decision. The trust will not begin removing life-support until all legal issues have been resolved. 26 April - Barts Health Trust, which runs the Royal London Hospital, starts High Court proceedings to run brain stem tests. 6-8 June - Court hearing held to decide if Archie's life support treatment should continue. 13 June 2022 - Mrs Justice Arbuthnot rules that Archie is dead based on MRI scan results. She believes he was taking part in an online challenge. Ms Dance added: "It’s been really hard.

The 12-year-old has died in hospital after his life support was withdrawn following a legal battle.

"Such a beautiful little boy and he fought right until the very end and I'm so proud to be his mum." He never regained consciousness. His mother, Hollie Dance, said: "Such a beautiful little boy, and he fought right until the very end."

'He fought right until the very end and I am so proud to be his mum,' Hollie Dance tells reporters outside hospital.

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. By clicking ‘Register’ you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use, Cookie policy and Privacy notice. Ms Dance added: “It’s been really hard. By clicking ‘Register’ you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use, Cookie policy and Privacy notice. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy policy and Terms of service apply. “It’s barbaric.”

London hospital halts treatment after parents lose legal fight to postpone withdrawal of life support.

This tragic case not only affected the family and his carers but touched the hearts of many across the country.” Alistair Chesser, the trust’s chief medical officer, said: “Archie Battersbee passed away on Saturday afternoon at the Royal London hospital after treatment was withdrawn in line with court rulings about his best interests. My boy is 12, the same age as Archie, and this just puts things in perspective.” And I’ve done it.” She said: “I did not know what to write because there are no words that will take the pain away. Speaking through tears, she said: “In sadness, Archie passed at 12.15pm today.

The schoolboy died two hours and fifteen minutes after his medical support was withdrawn but his fight lasted months.

Archie’s family refocus their legal efforts to have him moved to a hospice and appeal to the High Court. Mrs Justice Theis decides the boy should not moved to a hospice. The hospital caring for Archie was due to be withdrawn on August 1 at 2pm but it was delayed when a new court hearing was scheduled with hours to go. The High Court judge refuses the family permission to appeal against her ruling, granting a stay on the withdrawal of Archie’s treatment until 2pm on Friday to allow them to go directly to the Court of Appeal. She believes he was taking part in a TikTok challenge. Archie’s family fail to persuade the Supreme Court to intervene in the case.

The boy's parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, wanted the treatment to continue, saying earlier this year his heart was still beating and he had ...

"Walking up the stairs, and seeing obviously where I found him, I don't know how I'm going to cope. I don't know how I'm going to cope with that. "Archie and Lauren, they're close, too. It's just heartbreaking." "He leaves an impact wherever he goes. "They provided high-quality care with extraordinary compassion over several months in often trying and distressing circumstances.

His distraught mother Hollie Dance, who had sought to oppose the withdrawal of treatment, said he was “such a beautiful little boy and he fought right until the ...

“When considering the wishes of the family, why those wishes are held, the facilities at the hospice, what Archie is likely to have wanted… The 12-year-old’s parents Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, who are separated but both from Southend, Essex, had fought a long-running legal battle over the withdrawal of his treatment. “They provided high-quality care with extraordinary compassion over several months in often trying and distressing circumstances. His care team had opted to switch off the life support systems as his organs were beginning to fail and his heart shutting down. he should remain at the hospital when treatment is withdrawn.” His parents had fought a long legal battle against the withdrawal of his life-sustaining treatment and when this failed, they attempted to have him moved to a hospice for his final time, but this was denied by the High Court, Court of Appeal and a last-ditch plea to the European Court of Human Rights was rejected late on Friday.

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The parents of Archie Battersbee, 12, who suffered severe brain injuries in April, have been trying to keep him on life support for weeks, taking the case as ...

In July, three Court of Appeals judges agreed with original ruling, that found life support for the boy could end. Back in June, a High Court judge ruled Battersbee was “dead” on the basis of MRI scans. Assisted by the Christian Legal Centre, his parents exhausted available legal routes to keep him on life support. In August, the European Court of Human Rights told the family it could not accept an application to postpone life support. But the Court of Appeals refused the request. His parents, Peter Battersbee and Hollie Dance, believe he may have been taking part in a social media challenge at the time.

Dance and Battersbee's father had been fighting to keep the boy alive since he was discovered unconscious at home on April 7 with severe brain injuries. The ...

The case is one of several high-profile instances in recent years of British courts intervening when doctors and families are at odds on the best course of treatment. The family had asked for Battersbee to be transferred to hospice, but the High Court ruled he was too medically unstable. Dance and Battersbee’s father had been fighting to keep the boy alive since he was discovered unconscious at home on April 7 with severe brain injuries.

The 12-year-old has died after his life support was withdrawn, following a four-month legal fight.

Doctors believe it is “highly likely” that the child is in effect dead and that it is in his best interests to stop life-support treatment. Their application to the ECHR, arguing that the high court’s ruling violated the European convention on human rights, fails. In the family division of the high court, Arbuthnot oversees three days of evidence and argument about Archie’s treatment. Royal London hospital sets a date for Archie’s treatment to be withdrawn, on 1 August at 2pm. He is taken to hospital with traumatic head injuries. Barts Health, the NHS trust in charge of Archie’s care at the Royal London hospital, starts proceedings in the high court to test his brain stem and to withdraw mechanical ventilation.

He was found unconscious after strangling himself with a dressing-gown cord in a TikTok challenge. His life support was removed at 5am EST today, and he died ...

It's barbaric." "He was taken off medication. We hope no family has to go through what we have been through.

The decision to terminate the brain-damaged boy's life support was made by a British court over his parents' protests.

Pope Francis and Polish President Andrzej Duda spoke in defence of Alfie, with President Duda suggesting he could grant the boy Polish citizenship if the parents requested it and for him to be treated in a Polish hospital. Alfie Evans was eventually granted Italian citizenship, but ultimately he was not transferred to Italy and died in the same hospital in which he spent almost a year and a half of his life. The parents were also refused to take the boy out of the hospital and put him in a hospice, where he could receive palliative care. The case of Archie Battersbee was not the first one in which a UK court decided to terminate life support for a child, siding with the doctors over the protests of its parents. Archie’s heartbroken mother said that the state effectively took away their right to make decisions about the well-being of their child. “The Court [...] decided not to issue the interim measure sought.

Archie Battersbee died Saturday after he was taken off of life support by doctors at the Royal London Hospital.

Doctors felt that the boy's situation was hopeless and that he would not recover because his brain stem was dead. The events of the last few weeks raise many significant issues including questions of how death is defined, how those decisions are made and the place of the family," said Williams. "I would just like to say I am the proudest mum in the world.

But doctors treating the boy had declared Archie to be "brain stem dead", and argued that the youngster should be disconnected from a ventilator.

"They provided high-quality care with extraordinary compassion over several months in often trying and distressing circumstances. It's been really hard. It's barbaric." Chief executive Andrea Williams said: "The events of the last few weeks raise many significant issues including questions of how death is defined, how those decisions are made and the place of the family. "The events of the last few weeks raise many significant issues including questions of how death is defined, how those decisions are made and the place of the family," the Christian Legal Centre says. "Urgent review and reform" is needed in light of Archie Battersbee's death, a group that has been supporting his family has said.

Archie Battersbee, 12, died hours after he was taken off of life support at Royal London Hospital in London. The death happened after a judge decided ...

The parents pushed for their son to undergo experimental treatment before a court sided with doctors, who argued for ending life support. Doctors at the Royal London Hospital argued Archie was brain-stem dead and should be allowed to die. "Their unconditional love and dedication to Archie is a golden thread that runs through this case,″ Theis wrote in her decision. In the case, the will of the parents were again pitted against those of medical professionals. The European Court of Human Rights refused to intervene in the case. Archie Battersbee, 12, died at a London hospital around noon on Saturday, about two hours after doctors discontinued treating him.

Archie Battersbee sorrowed brain damage in a happening at home on April 7 and did not recover consciousness.

After Archie's death, the Barts Health NHS Trust informed the press that they would like to thank the hospital and the caregivers for their undying support. Hollie was, however, informed by the hospital authorities that there were no other methods left for her son to continue living. The little boy had major brain injuries and needed life support, including mechanical ventilation and medicinal treatment.

Archie Battersbee, the 12-year-old British boy whose family waged an unsuccessful legal fight to stop his doctors from disconnecting him from a ventilator, ...

Archie’s doctors at Royal London Hospital had maintained that the boy, whose heart was still beating, was “very likely” brain-stem dead, but a conclusive test was never performed. According to news reports, his family suspects he may have been taking part in a social media challenge. “And I’m so proud to be his mum.”

Archie had been in hospital since being found unconscious at his home in Southend, Essex, in April. He suffered severe brain injuries and needed life-sustaining ...

His family failed in a series of attempts to overturn the decision and since his death have called for parents to have more support and choice in the treatment of their child. "We were backed into a corner by the system, stripped of all our rights, and have had to fight for Archie's real 'best interests' and right to live with everything stacked against us. In a statement released on Sunday, the family said the pressure of the process had been "unbelievable". The family called for a public inquiry into the role of the NHS and the High Court Family Division in end-of-life cases. He never regained consciousness. The family of Archie Battersbee have said nobody should go through what they had to and have called for an inquiry into the legal battle surrounding the withdrawal of his life support.

12-year-old boy die for hospital afta im life support dey withdrawn following one legal battle.

Andrea Williams, chief executive of di Christian Legal Centre, wey dey support di family case, say: "Our thoughts, prayers and support dey wit Archie family for dis tragic moment." For inside one statement afta Archie die, Barts Health NHS Trust say: "Members of im family dey for im bedside and our thoughts and heartfelt condolences remain wit dem for dis difficult time. Wit support by di Christian Legal Centre campaigning organisation, di family say dem bin don see signs of life from Archie and say di doctors no listen to dia concerns. Afta im transfer to di Royal London Hospital for east London, wey Barts Health NHS Trust dey run, doctors bin tell Archie family say dem believe say im brain damage dey so significant say e fit don dey brain stem dead. She and Paul Battersbee, Archie papa, bin ask di European Court of Human Rights to chook mouth for di case last week as dem dey fight for make life support continue, but dem tell dem say e no dey possible. E never regain consciousness.

Doctors like me agonise over the harrowing decisions around the end of treatment – but we must always be ready to listen, says Rachel Clarke.

When the next case like Archie’s occurs – with an inevitable rerun of the frenzy and drama and whipped-up hostilities – please know that doctors like me agonise over the complex decisions around withdrawal of treatment. That professionalism is in stark contrast to some of the florid and sensationalist coverage of the case. But brain death means a permanent, irreversible and complete loss of brain function, including the lower part of the brain that connects to the spinal cord. This part, the brain stem, controls most of the body’s automatic functions that are essential for life, such as breathing, heartbeat, blood pressure and swallowing. However, once the full extent of his injuries became clear – including scans showing catastrophic and irreversible brain damage – the clinical team concluded that prolonging treatment was no longer in Archie’s best interests. The professional and legal duties of doctors in the UK require nothing less.

Relatives say they want changes to how life-support cases are dealt with after 12-year-old died following withdrawal of care.

The intervention of third-party groups, such as the anti-LGBT and anti-abortion Christian Legal Centre, in such cases has come under fire. They had wanted him to be taken to the US for treatment. We were backed into a corner by the system, stripped of all our rights, and have had to fight for Archie’s real ‘best interests’ and right to live with everything stacked against us.