Application was final legal avenue for 12-year-old’s parents to stop removal of treatment
The European court of human rights (ECHR) has rejected an application by the parents of Archie Battersbee for it to stop his life support treatment from being removed.
The appeal to the Strasbourg court was the final legal avenue available to Hollie Dance, 46 and Paul Battersbee, 57, from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, after the UK’s supreme court ruled on Tuesday that further delaying the withdrawal of Archie’s life support would not be in his best interests.
