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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Chris Slater

Archie Battersbee's mum speaks out as final legal appeal rejected

The mother of Archie Battersbee says she has 'done everything that I promised my little boy I’d do.' It comes as his devastated family prepare for his life-support treatment to be withdrawn this morning (Saturday).

A last-ditch plea to the European Court of Human Rights to intervene in the case was rejected late on Friday, following a High Court ruling that he must remain at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London.

The 12-year-old has been in a coma since he was found unconscious by his mother in April and is being kept alive by a combination of medical interventions, including ventilation and drug treatments.

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