Archie Battersbee's mum has insisted that 'it shouldn't be down to other people to decide where he takes his last breath'.
Archie Battersbee's doctors have "got it wrong", his mother has insisted after launching a last ditch bid to keep him alive.Hollie Dance said she is "running on empty" after weeks of legal challenges but had promised she would fight to the "bitter end... the right for my son to live".
Barts Health NHS Trust said it would not be postponed unless the family submitted an application to the European Court of Human Rights by 9am, which they said they have managed to do. "Why is it so cut-and-shut that he has to die in this country because this country doesn't want to treat him no more?" she asked, naming "Tokyo and Italy".Archie's family want the 12-year-old to be moved to a hospice if his life support is to be cut off, his sister-in-law, Ella Carter, said on Tuesday.
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