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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Brian Farmer

Family prepares appeal bid after judge rules 12-year-old boy has died

PA Media

Relatives of a 12-year-old boy at the centre of a life-support treatment fight are preparing to launch an appeal bid after a High Court judge ruled that the youngster is dead.

Doctors treating Archie Battersbee at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, think the youngster is “brain-stem dead”.

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