Archie Battersbee's life support to be switched off unless family launch hospice bid by 9am

His parents lost their latest legal application tonight to stop doctors ending life-sustaining hospital treatment for their brain-damaged son after a European court said it “will not interfere” with the decisions of UK courts.

Archie Battersbee’s family want to move him to a hospice. Pic: Hollie Dance

Archie Battersbee’s life support will be withdrawn at 11am, unless his family launch a High Court bid by 9am to move him to a hospice.

His parents plan to file the application by the deadline.

They lost their latest legal appeal to stop doctors ending life-sustaining hospital treatment for their brain-damaged son after a European court said it “will not interfere” with the decisions of UK courts.

The 12-year-old’s family had applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to intervene as they fought to postpone treatment being switched off.

But the Strasbourg-based court said it would not interfere with previous rulings by “national courts”.