Home Office looks at allowing cannabis oil for boy with epilepsy

Prescriptions consideration comes after Billy Caldwell, 12, has 'life-threatening' seizures

The Home Office has said it will "carefully consider" allowing a 12-year-old boy to be prescribed cannabis oil after he was admitted to hospital with "life-threatening" seizures following the confiscation of his supply.

Billy Caldwell had his anti-epileptic medicine confiscated at Heathrow airport on Monday. If the decision is made to permit him to have the treatment, it would be the first time that cannabis oil containing THC was legally prescribed in the UK since it was made illegal in 1971.