The family of Archie Battersbee has been denied persmission to take its appeal of a High Court ruling to withdraw the 12-year-old’s life support to the UN.
The young boy at the centre of the legal battle has relied on mechanical ventilation since being admitted to hospital on 7 April, after he was found unconscious with a ligature over his head.
Doctors treating Archie at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, think he is brain-stem dead and say continued life-support treatment is not in his best interests.
On Monday, his parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, were allowed to appeal the decision at the Court of Appeal, but lost.
Three Court of Appeal judges ruled that the High Court judge’s previous decision was not wrong.
The boys family has now said it will apply to the Supreme Court in order in a second bid for the case to be heard at the United Nations.
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