“A judge has ruled that a 12-year-old boy with catastrophic brain damage is dead and that his treatment can stop.

“Archie Battersbee has not regained consciousness since an accident at his home on 7 April, when he was discovered with a ligature over his head.

“On Monday Mrs Justice Arbuthnot, sitting in the family division of the high court, backed doctors at the Royal London hospital in east London who concluded that Archie was “brain-stem dead” and should no longer be kept alive.

“She said doctors could lawfully stop treating him.”

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