ARCHIE Battersbee’s family have lost their bid to move him to a hospice to die. The 12-year-old’s desperate mum Hollie Dance earlier called refusing to move Archie “inhuman”…
Alfie's dad Tom gave the boy mouth-to-mouth to keep the dying tot alive in his devastating final moments.on Wednesday rejected Hollie and Paul's last-ditch appeal to keep Archie's life support switched on - leaving Hollie "absolutely deflated" .
The following day, the family made an application to the High Court to move Archie from Royal London Hospital to a hospice for his final hours.In a statement, Hollie said yesterday: "If Archie is denied oxygen if and when life-support is removed I will continue to give him oxygen. "I pray that the High Court will do the right thing. If they refuse permission for us to take him to a hospice and for him to receive palliative oxygen it will simply be inhumane and nothing about Archie's 'dignity.'"Reform must now come through Charlie's Law so that no parents have to go through this.The family's lawyers had until 9am on Thursday to make their High Court appeal in order to transfer their young son out of the Royal London Hospital.
I pray that the High Court will do the right thing. If they refuse permission for us to take him to a hospice and for him to receive palliative oxygen it will simply be inhumane and nothing about Archie's 'dignity.'Heartbroken Hollie confirmed the family's intentions to keep battling the courts' decisions, describing it as "completely barbaric and absolutely disgusting that we're not even allowed to choose where Archie takes his last moments".
She previously vowed: "We will fight until the bitter end. We're going to fight for the right for my son to live."
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