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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Brian Farmer

Boy at centre of treatment dispute has ‘irretrievable’ brain damage – specialist

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Scans show that a 12-year-old boy at the centre of a life-support treatment dispute has suffered “irretrievable” brain damage, a specialist has told a High Court judge.

The specialist told Mrs Justice Arbuthnot, during the latest in a series of court hearings, that tests showed Archie Battersbee had signs of “end-point severe global brain injury”.

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