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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent and agency

Archie Battersbee: parents say they will fight to move him to a hospice

Archie Battersbee
Twelve-year-old Archie has been in a coma since suffering a catastrophic brain injury on 7 April. Photograph: Hollie Dance/PA

The parents of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee have pledged to “fight” to get him moved to a hospice, insisting they should be allowed to choose where he takes “his last moments”.

After the rejection by the European court of human rights of their last-ditch bid to postpone the withdrawal of Archie’s life support, the family now intends to file an application to the high court in London to transfer him out of the Royal London hospital.

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