A court considers the case of Archie Battersbee, 12, 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 may be "very hard to bear", a High Court judge has been told.Specialists at the Royal London Hospital in east London believed it was "highly likely" he was dead and said his life support treatment should end.
"The scans, once they are interpreted, paint a picture that may be very hard to bear," she told the court in London. "[A doctor has said] that very sadly Archie's digestive system is no longer absorbing nourishment properly as a result of his brain injury."Archie pictured with his mother Hollie Dance, who has asked for more time to allow her son to recover
High Court judge Mrs Justice Arbuthnot has heard that Archie suffered brain damage in an incident at home in early April.
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