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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Michelle Morgan Davies & Sam Elliott-Gibbs

'My strong boy needs more time to recover before his life support is turned off'

A desperate mum is facing a race against time to keep her young son alive as she prepares for a High Court battle to stop a hospital turning off his life support.

Hollie Dance, 46, wants to keep 12-year-old son Archie Battersbee on the mechanical ventilation machine just four weeks after the “freak accident” at his home.

He never regained consciousness and specialists treating him say it is highly likely the boy is already brain dead.

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