Archie Battersbee's parents lose Supreme Court bid to keep life support system alive

Archie Battersbee's family filed an urgent appeal to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, moments before his life support was terminated

Hollie called on doctors to give her son more time to recover from his coma (

Image: Hollie Dance / SWNS)

Archie Battersbee's parents lost their final Supreme Court bid to keep his life support.

On Tuesday afternoon, Secretary of State for Health and Human Services Steve Barclay intervened in the case of 12-year-old Archie, asking that the families' urgent leave to appeal to the Court supreme be denied.< /p>

Archie's family filed the urgent appeal at noon, moments before his life was over, and subsequently lost their case.

Archie's mother, Hollie Dance, said she felt "abandoned, even betrayed" by the decision.

On Monday afternoon, shortly after 3:00 p.m., a judge ruled that the schoolboy's life support system could be disabled after his family lost a last-ditch attempt to keep him alive.

Doctors had previously announced they would begin to halt treatment from midday on Tuesday, but since the application was filed they are awaiting Supreme Court instructions, giving the schoolboy more time .

Archie - an avid boxer and gymnast - did not regain consciousness after his mother found him at their home on April 7 (

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Hollie Dance/SWNS)

This afternoon, the request for an appeal made by Archie's parents, Ms Dance and Mr Battersbee, was rejected by a three-judge panel of the Supreme Court, who concluded that the Court of appeal "made the right decision".

While the panel said it had "great sympathy" for Archie's "devoted parents", it said there was "no prospect of meaningful recovery (by Archie).

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"Even if life-saving treatments were to be continued, Archie would die within the next few weeks of organ failure and then heart failure...