Archie Battersbee: judge backs test to establish if 12-year-old boy is dead

Parents want life support to continue for Archie, who has been unconscious since he suffered catastrophic' brain damage

Specialists should use a brain-stem test to try to establish whether a 12-year-old boy who has not regained consciousness since suffering catastrophic" brain damage is dead, a high court judge has ruled.

Mrs Justice Arbuthnot concluded that the test would be in Archie Battersbee's best interests at a hearing in the family division of the high court in London on Friday.