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The parents of Archie Battersbee have submitted an application to the European court of human rights (ECHR) in an attempt to postpone the withdrawal of his life support.
Lawyers acting for Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee had been given a deadline of 9am on Wednesday to submit the application.
On Tuesday evening, Dance said Barts Health NHS trust would begin to withdraw Archie’s life support at 11am on Wednesday unless the family submitted the application to the Strasbourg-based court by 9am.
The 12-year-old has been in a coma since suffering a catastrophic brain injury on 7 April. He has been kept alive by a combination of medical interventions, including ventilation and drug treatments, at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, east London.
Dance said: “We now hope and pray that the ECHR will look favourably on the application. We will not give up on Archie until the end.”
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