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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Brian Farmer

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Judge backs brain stem test to determine if boy is dead - Caught on Camera

PA Wire

Specialists should try to establish whether a 12-year-old boy who has not regained consciousness since suffering “catastrophic” brain damage in an incident at home more than a month ago is dead, a High Court judge has ruled.

Mrs Justice Arbuthnot concluded that a brain-stem test would be in Archie Battersbee’s best interests, at a hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London on Friday.

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