Life support treatment for a 12-year-old boy with brain damage should be stopped as he is clinically dead, the High Court has ruled.
after he was seriously injured in an incident at his home in Southend, Essex, in April.
Doctors treating the child at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, argued that life support treatment should end and the youngster should be disconnected from a ventilator., wanted the treatment to continue, saying the youngster's heart is still beating and he had gripped his mother's hand.
Lawyers representing the Royal London Hospital's governing trust, Barts Health NHS Trust, asked Mrs Justice Arbuthnot to decide what moves were in Archie's best interests."I find that Archie died at noon on 31 May 2022, which was shortly after the MRI scans taken that day," said the judge in a written ruling.More from UK
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