Archie Battersbee's mum and dad have revealed they are filing another legal bid to have the schoolboy moved to a hospice. Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee claim they should be allowed to choose where the 12-year-old takes his final moments.
They had until 9am today, Thursday August 4, to submit a legal challenge to transfer him to a hospice. The schoolboy has been in a coma since he was found unconscious by his mother in April.
Archie is currently being kept alive by a combination of medical interventions, including ventilation and drug treatment s, at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, East London.
This morning his mum Hollie, told Times Radio said: “Hospital are obviously coming across to everybody you know - their deepest thoughts are with the family and everything they can do to etc, etc. “This really isn’t the case and I think that the letter that went out quite sort of late yesterday evening saying that just again, a bit of a blackmailing letter, you know: ‘You’ve got till nine o’clock’, leaving the lawyers again under pressure, which is what this hospital has done from day one of being here really. “Everything’s just been so high-pressured.” Barts Health NHS Trust have been approached for a comment, according to Mirror Online.
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