Despite his family battling throughout the last week, 'all legal routes have been exhausted'
Tragic Archie Battersbee’s life support will be switched off in hospital at 10am on Saturday after his devoted parents lost a long-running court battle with all legal routes now "exhausted". Campaign group Christian Concern announced that his loved ones had been told tonight that the 12-year-old's life-supporting treatment would end - before the European Court of Human Rights then said it will not intervene in the case.
The Court of Appeal confirmed shortly after 6.30pm that permission to appeal had been refused. Christian Concern then announced the boy's family had been told his life-sustaining treatment will be withdrawn from 10am on Saturday. And the ECHR has now refused to intervene in that fight, too. A spokesman said it had received a request from representatives of Archie's parents under Rule 39 which allow it to apply "interim measures" in "exceptional" cases where it "considers that the applicant faces a real risk of serious, irreversible harm if the measure is not applied".
"The circumstances outlined by Dr F of the physical arrangements at the hospital and the arrangements that can be made will ensure that Archie's best interest will remain the focus of the final arrangements to enable him peacefully and privately to die in the embrace of the family he loved. The parents in the email from their solicitors on August 2 confirmed, in principle, their willingness to co-operate in these arrangements.
Following the ruling, Ms Dance, who feels a hospice would allow for Archie to have a more private and dignified death, said: "All our wishes as a family have been denied by the authorities. We are broken, but we are keeping going, because we love Archie and refuse to give up on him."
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