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Brian Farmer

Results of scans on boy with brain damage may be ‘hard to bear’, judge told

PA Wire

Tests on a 12-year-old boy who has suffered brain damage and is at the centre of a life-support treatment dispute paint a picture which may be “very hard to bear”, a lawyer representing hospital bosses has told a High Court judge.

Doctors treating Archie Battersbee at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, think it “highly likely” he is dead and say life-support treatment should end.

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