Archie Battersbee

London hospital halts treatment after parents lose legal fight to postpone withdrawal of life support.

This tragic case not only affected the family and his carers but touched the hearts of many across the country.” Alistair Chesser, the trust’s chief medical officer, said: “Archie Battersbee passed away on Saturday afternoon at the Royal London hospital after treatment was withdrawn in line with court rulings about his best interests. My boy is 12, the same age as Archie, and this just puts things in perspective.” And I’ve done it.” She said: “I did not know what to write because there are no words that will take the pain away. Speaking through tears, she said: “In sadness, Archie passed at 12.15pm today.

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"I don't think doctors should be able to bring a case like this to court. That does not help anyone. "They have different political, or other views and they have a reason or a wish to tell the parents things that may not be accurate. "Of course, we have to have them there to have some order in the system but it can feel as if you would like to call for a time out." "Court is an important thing for everywhere, but this subject is for the parents to decide what is best for their child. Alta Fixsler's father, Abraham, believes firmly that it should be for the parents to decide what is in the best interests of their child.

The parents of Archie Battersbee, 12, who suffered severe brain injuries in April, have been trying to keep him on life support for weeks, taking the case as ...

In July, three Court of Appeals judges agreed with original ruling, that found life support for the boy could end. Back in June, a High Court judge ruled Battersbee was “dead” on the basis of MRI scans. Assisted by the Christian Legal Centre, his parents exhausted available legal routes to keep him on life support. In August, the European Court of Human Rights told the family it could not accept an application to postpone life support. But the Court of Appeals refused the request. His parents, Peter Battersbee and Hollie Dance, believe he may have been taking part in a social media challenge at the time.

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TalkTV presenter Richard Tice also rushed to pay tribute to Archie as he penned: "So sad. "It's been really hard. Even when the relationship between family and hospital is strong, these situations are heartbreaking. She said: "In sadness, Archie passed at 12.15pm today. RIP Archie." Alongside it, he penned: "Such an incredibly sad story.

The boy's parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, wanted the treatment to continue, saying earlier this year his heart was still beating and he had ...

"Walking up the stairs, and seeing obviously where I found him, I don't know how I'm going to cope. I don't know how I'm going to cope with that. "Archie and Lauren, they're close, too. It's just heartbreaking." "He leaves an impact wherever he goes. "They provided high-quality care with extraordinary compassion over several months in often trying and distressing circumstances.

His distraught mother Hollie Dance, who had sought to oppose the withdrawal of treatment, said he was “such a beautiful little boy and he fought right until the ...

“When considering the wishes of the family, why those wishes are held, the facilities at the hospice, what Archie is likely to have wanted… The 12-year-old’s parents Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, who are separated but both from Southend, Essex, had fought a long-running legal battle over the withdrawal of his treatment. “They provided high-quality care with extraordinary compassion over several months in often trying and distressing circumstances. His care team had opted to switch off the life support systems as his organs were beginning to fail and his heart shutting down. he should remain at the hospital when treatment is withdrawn.” His parents had fought a long legal battle against the withdrawal of his life-sustaining treatment and when this failed, they attempted to have him moved to a hospice for his final time, but this was denied by the High Court, Court of Appeal and a last-ditch plea to the European Court of Human Rights was rejected late on Friday.

The 12-year-old has died after his life support was withdrawn, following a four-month legal fight.

Doctors believe it is “highly likely” that the child is in effect dead and that it is in his best interests to stop life-support treatment. Their application to the ECHR, arguing that the high court’s ruling violated the European convention on human rights, fails. In the family division of the high court, Arbuthnot oversees three days of evidence and argument about Archie’s treatment. Royal London hospital sets a date for Archie’s treatment to be withdrawn, on 1 August at 2pm. He is taken to hospital with traumatic head injuries. Barts Health, the NHS trust in charge of Archie’s care at the Royal London hospital, starts proceedings in the high court to test his brain stem and to withdraw mechanical ventilation.

He was being kept alive by a combination of medical interventions, including ventilation and drug treatments. Speaking through tears outside the Royal London ...

Ms Dance went on: ‘I know I’ve done a very good job being Archie’s mum. Based on my own childhood I was determined to be as good as a mother as I can possibly be and I feel like I have done that to the very best of my ability.’ Ms Dance added: ‘It’s been really hard. ‘Tragically, the consequence of the catastrophic brain injury that he sustained on the April 7 is that Archie is no longer the boy in the photograph. The ruling, which confirmed that doctors could lawfully stop providing life-support treatment to the schoolboy, went on: ‘Archie’s condition and the awful predicament that he and his family are in have achieved widespread Press and media publicity, much of which has included a photograph showing Archie as a most engaging boy. Shelley Elias, 43, said she had come to the Royal London Hospital because ‘I wanted his mum Hollie and the family to know I was thinking of them’. Candles flickered in the shape of the letter ‘A’ and also formed a love heart around a card with Archie’s name in a makeshift tribute at a statue in front of the hospital. The judgement referred to a nurse who says none of the medical staff ‘witnessed any sign of spontaneous life’ in Archie during his time in hospital. ‘I just wanted the mum and her family to know that I am here for them. Speaking after a last-ditch plea to the European Court of Human Rights to step in was rejected on Friday, Ms Dance insisted she had done everything she promised her son she would do. Archie’s parents had fought a long-running legal battle over the withdrawal of treatment and in recent days made bids to the High Court, Court of Appeal and European Court of Human Rights to have him transferred to a hospice to die. In an emotional statement, she added: ‘I would just like to say I am the proudest mum in the world.

The decision to terminate the brain-damaged boy's life support was made by a British court over his parents' protests.

Pope Francis and Polish President Andrzej Duda spoke in defence of Alfie, with President Duda suggesting he could grant the boy Polish citizenship if the parents requested it and for him to be treated in a Polish hospital. Alfie Evans was eventually granted Italian citizenship, but ultimately he was not transferred to Italy and died in the same hospital in which he spent almost a year and a half of his life. The parents were also refused to take the boy out of the hospital and put him in a hospice, where he could receive palliative care. The case of Archie Battersbee was not the first one in which a UK court decided to terminate life support for a child, siding with the doctors over the protests of its parents. Archie’s heartbroken mother said that the state effectively took away their right to make decisions about the well-being of their child. “The Court [...] decided not to issue the interim measure sought.

Archie's parents had fought a long-running legal battle over the withdrawal of treatment and in recent days made bids to the High Court, Court of Appeal and ...

A spokesman for the European court said it had received a request from representatives of Archie’s parents under Rule 39, which allow it to apply “interim measures” in “exceptional” cases, and that the complaints “fell outside the scope” of that rule, and so it would not intervene. In a High Court ruling on Friday morning, Mrs Justice Theis concluded it was not in Archie’s best interests to be moved to a hospice and the Court of Appeal rejected permission to appeal that decision. Ms Dance added: “It’s been really hard.

British courts Friday rejected the family's request to move the 12-year-old, who has been in a coma for four months, to a hospice.

Under British law, it is common for courts to intervene when parents and doctors disagree on a child's medical treatment. "I return to where I started, recognizing the enormity of what lays ahead for Archie's parents and the family. The hospital said Archie's condition was so unstable that moving him would hasten his death.

Archie Battersbee has died in hospital after weeks of legal battles. He had been in a coma since April after a catastrophic brain injury, with his parents ...

Ms Dance added: "It's been really hard. Archie Battersbee has died in hospital after weeks of legal battles. In an interview with Sky News, recorded on Friday, Ms Dance said she was "pretty broken" and that the day had been "absolutely awful".