Doctors can lawfully stop life support for boy who was brain damaged, High Court rules

A High Court judge has ruled that a 12 year old boy who sustained a catastrophic brain injury should be allowed to die, after the Court of Appeal overturned an earlier ruling by another judge that he was already brain dead.1Archie Battersbee’s parents, who have been fighting a legal and media campaign for the ventilation keeping him alive to continue, said they would seek to appeal the latest ruling by Mr Justice Hayden that the treatment was only protracting his death, rather than prolonging his life.Archie’s mother, Hollie Dance, found him unresponsive with a ligature around his neck at his home on 7 April. She believes he was taking part in a viral social media trend known as the blackout challenge.He is in a coma and is being kept alive by mechanical ventilation at the Royal London Hospital, run by Barts Health NHS Trust, which previously obtained a court order…
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