Archie Battersbee: Government backs UN bid to stop boy's life support treatment being ended

In response to the Government Legal Department letter to the High Court, Archie's mother Hollie Dance says"we are relieved that the Government has taken the UN's intervention seriously".The government's legal advisers have asked the High Court to"urgently consider" a request by the UN to stop life support treatment being ended for 12-year-old Archie Battersbee.

On Saturday, the government confirmed to Sky News that it was carefully considering correspondence from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, after the UN intervened in the case to apply interim measures on the UK prohibiting any moves to withdraw treatment. Archie has relied on a machine to breathe since being admitted to hospital on 7 April after being found unconscious at home by his mother in Southend, Essex.

The Government Legal Department further requests that the letter is placed before an out-of-hours judge immediately.Doctors treating him at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, say he is brain-stem dead and continued life-support treatment is not in his best interests. In response to the Government Legal Department letter to the High Court, Ms Dance said:"We are relieved that the Government has taken the UN's intervention seriously. This was not a 'request' but an interim measures injunction from the UN.

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