A 12-year-old boy with brain damage and his family are waiting for a High Court judge to decide whether his life-support treatment should be continued

Elliot Shaw

On April 7, Archie Battersbee was discovered unconscious at his home in Southend, Essex.

Doctors at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, determined that he was “brain-stem dead” and that his life support should be turned off.

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