Boy, 12, at centre of life-support fight ‘will not recover’, doctors say

Medical doctors say Archie Battersbee is ‘unresponsive’ and won't get well (Image: PA)

Archie Battersbee is not going to get well and persevering with his therapy will solely ‘delay the inevitable’, the Excessive Court docket has heard.

The 12-year-old boy is on the centre of a dispute between medical doctors and his household after he suffered a ‘devastating’ mind damage three months in the past.

His mother and father, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, say their son’s coronary heart remains to be beating and need his life assist therapy to proceed.

Representing hospital bosses, Martin Westgate QC informed Mr Justice Hayden that Archie is ‘unresponsive’ and has ‘no prospect’ of recovering.

He stated specialists don't suppose it's within the boy’s greatest pursuits for therapy to proceed.

However a barrister for Archie’s household stated it's hoped their son will ‘make some kind of restoration’.

Ian Smart QC argued persevering with with the therapy isn't ‘futile’ and that Archie would desire a ‘pure’ not a ‘choreographed’ or ‘deliberate’ loss of life.

Archie Battersbee’s mom Hollie Dance (proper) and household good friend Ella Carter exterior the Excessive Court docket (Image: PA)

Ms Dance has urged a Excessive Court docket decide to let him die a pure loss of life (Image: PA)

Mr Justice Hayden is overseeing the most recent in a sequence of hearings within the Household Division of the Excessive Court docket in London.

He's reviewing proof after one other Excessive Court docket decide dominated Archie was lifeless.

Medical doctors treating him on the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, suppose he's ‘brain-stem lifeless’.

However Archie’s mother and father disagree.

‘He's not responsive and has no prospect of restoration,’ Mr Westgate informed the decide as we speak.

‘The belief have come to the conclusion that persevering with therapy is now not in his greatest pursuits.’

Archie’s brother Tom Summers kisses his head in hospital (Image: PA)

Archie’s dad Paul Battersbee desires his son to proceed along with his life assist therapy (Image: PA)

He added: ‘All that therapy can do is delay the inevitable outcome.’

Mr Smart stated Archie’s mother and father recognise the very critical situation their son is in and that he has a ‘very poor prognosis’.

However he stated they suppose that, ‘within the interim’, Archie has a ‘life value residing’ and, ‘within the present circumstances’, a ‘lifetime of dignity’.

Archie’s mom has informed how she discovered him unconscious with a ligature over his head on April 7 and thinks he may need been collaborating in a web based problem.

He has not regained consciousness.

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