Family of Archie Battersbee given right to appeal life support decision

The parents of a 12-year-old boy in a coma have been given the right to appeal against the decision to allow his life-support treatment to end.

Last week, a High Court judge ruled that Archie Battersbee was "brain-stem dead" and treatment at the Royal London Hospital could stop.

Mrs Justice Arbuthnot has given Archie's parents permission to take the case to the Court of Appeal.

Archie was found unconscious at his home in Southend, Essex, on 7 April.

Mrs Arbuthnot is the same judge who ruled in favour of the hospital and against Archie's mother and father Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee.

Following last week's ruling, the Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs the Royal London, said it would not make any changes to Archie's care while his parents sought further legal hearings.