Archie Battersbee: boy on life support in London ‘likely brain stem dead’ high court told

Doctors treating 12-year-old boy say ventilator should be switched off

Doctors believe a 12-year-old boy at the centre of a life-support treatment dispute is very likely" to be brain-stem dead", a high court judge has heard.

Archie Battersbee has been treated by medics at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, after suffering brain damage two months ago.