Lawyers request 12-year-old be moved from Royal London hospital to spend his last moments in private

The family of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee have lodged a court application to have him moved to die “with dignity” in a hospice rather than in a hospital.

The family have exhausted all legal routes to postpone the withdrawal of Archie’s life support, after the European court of human rights said it would not interfere in the decision of the UK courts.

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