The mother of a boy whose life support must be turned off after a judge ruled he was legally dead has spoken of the heartbreaking moment she told her little boy.
On Monday, Mrs Justice Arbuthnot gave medics permission to end Archie Batersbee's life support. It followed a bitter legal dispute where medics argued he was “brain-stem dead”. The High Court ruling said he would 'never recover' after he was tragically brain damaged attempting an 'online challenge'.
Now his mother, Hollie Dance, who has vowed to appeal the ruling, has recounted the devastating meeting with her son, 12, during which she whispered to him: “Archie, we’ve lost this fight, but we won’t give up, we’ll keep fighting.”
