A 12-year-old boy at the centre of a life-support treatment dispute after suffering brain damage three months ago is “unresponsive” and will not recover, a barrister representing hospital bosses has told a High Court judge.
Martin Westgate QC told Mr Justice Hayden on Monday that Archie Battersbee suffered a “devastating” brain injury during at incident at home in April and specialists do not think it is in his best interests for treatment to continue.
