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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Dan Warburton

Archie Battersbee's family set for last-ditch legal bid to give him 'more time'

The family of stricken schoolboy Archie Battersbee on Monday launch a last-ditch legal battle to save his life.

Medics say life support should be removed from the 12-year-old, who has been in a coma for 13 weeks after an online “blackout challenge” went wrong.

The High Court ruled last month treatment could lawfully be stopped as Archie was “brain-stem dead”.

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