A judge has ruled that a 12-year-old boy, who has been at the centre of a High Court treatment dispute after suffering brain damage, is dead.
Doctors treating Archie Battersbee at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, think the youngster is "brain-stem dead". They said life-support treatment should end and Archie should be disconnected from a ventilator.
Archie's parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, from Southend, Essex, say the youngster's heart is still beating and want treatment to continue. Mrs Justice Arbuthnot on Monday ruled that Archie was dead and said doctors could lawfully stop treating him.
