Parents of injured 12-year-old hope to challenge ruling Archie is ‘brain-stem dead’ and treatment can be stopped

The family of a 12-year-old boy at the centre of a life-support treatment dispute are preparing to mount an appeal after a high court judge ruled that the youngster is dead and that his treatment can be stopped.

Mrs Justice Arbuthnot recently ruled that doctors could lawfully stop providing treatment to Archie Battersbee after considering evidence at a trial in the family division of the high court in London.

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