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Evening Standard
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Michael Howie and Daniel Keane

Archie Battersbee: 12-year-old boy at centre of High Court life-support treatment battle is dead, judge rules

A judge has ruled that 12-year-old Archie Battersbee, who has been at the centre of a High Court life-support treatment dispute after suffering brain damage, is dead and that life support treatment should stop.

Doctors treating Archie Battersbee at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, think the youngster is “brain-stem dead”.

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