Tests show parts of Archie Battersbee's brain is dead, court told

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A court considers the case of a 12-year-old who is on life support in hospital.

Test results on a boy with brain damage who is at the centre of a life-support dispute show parts of his brain have died, a High Court judge has been told.Specialists at the Royal London Hospital in east London said his life-support treatment should end.

A specialist, who cannot be named, told Mrs Justice Arbuthnot that the lower part of Archie's brain stem was significantly damaged and the upper part was also damaged. He said there had been no improvement since scans were taken in mid-April, but there were signs of deterioration.

 

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