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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Brian Farmer

Judge to decide if brain-damaged teenager can be allowed to die

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A High Court judge has been asked to decide whether a teenager who suffered brain damage after an “apparent suicide attempt” can lawfully be allowed to die.

Mrs Justice Morgan, who has begun considering the case at private hearings in the Family Division of the High Court in London, has been told that the teenager is in a hospital intensive care unit after suffering “severe global brain damage”.

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