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”.
But mum Hollie Dance will return to the court where Mr Justice Hayden will review whether this is in Archie’s best interests.
Hollie, 46, said: “We just want him to have more time. We just want him to be given a chance.”
Archie was found with a ligature around his neck in April.
He is on a ventilator at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, East London, where Hollie and Archie’s dad, Paul Battersbee, 56, say evid-ence had not shown “beyond reasonable doubt” he is dead.
Hollie of Southend, Essex, told how his heart rate increases when she greets him each morning and his blood pressure rose when his pals visited him. She said: “It just fills me with hope.”
