Here is a timeline of the tragic case of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee:
– April 7 2022
Archie is discovered unconscious by his mom, Hollie Dance, at her house in Southend, Essex. He has a ligature round his neck, prompting her to imagine he was participating in a web based problem gone incorrect. The boy is taken to hospital with traumatic head accidents.
– April 26
Barts Health NHS Trust, chargeable for Archie’s care on the Royal London Hospital, begins High Court proceedings searching for to undertake a take a look at of the mind stem – which is chargeable for maintaining individuals alive – and to withdraw mechanical air flow.
Doctors assume it “highly likely” that the teenager is successfully useless, and say it’s in his finest pursuits that life-support therapy ought to cease. Archie’s mother and father, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, elevate issues.
– May 13
High Court Judge Mrs Justice Arbuthnot guidelines {that a} mind stem take a look at can be in Archie’s finest pursuits.
– May 16
Two specialists try a nerve stimulation take a look at on Archie, however no response is detected.
– June 6-8
Mrs Justice Arbuthnot, sitting within the Family Division of the High Court, oversees three days of proof and argument referring to Archie’s therapy. Doctors assume it’s “very likely” he’s “brain-stem dead”. Lawyers representing Archie’s household say his coronary heart remains to be beating and wish care to proceed.
– June 13
Mrs Justice Arbuthnot guidelines that Archie is useless and says docs can lawfully cease treating him. Archie’s household say they plan to attraction.
– June 20
Ms Dance and Mr Battersbee are granted permission to attraction in opposition to the choice.
Archie Battersbee together with his mom Hollie Dance (Hollie Dance/PA)
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– June 29
At the following listening to, three attraction judges rule that proof relating to what’s in Archie’s finest pursuits needs to be reconsidered by a distinct High Court choose. Archie’s mother and father say they’re “delighted” on the resolution.
– July 11
High Court choose Mr Justice Hayden hears proof from docs that persevering with to deal with Archie will solely “delay the inevitable”. But the boy’s mom says her son is a “natural-born fighter” and urges docs to proceed care.
– July 15
Mr Justice Hayden guidelines in favour of the hospital belief, saying the medical proof is “compelling and unanimous” and paints a “bleak” image. He provides: “There can be no hope at all of recovery.” Archie’s mother and father say they may ask Court of Appeal judges to overturn Mr Justice Hayden’s resolution.
– July 21-22
Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the Family Division of the High Court and essentially the most senior household courtroom choose in England and Wales, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Peter Jackson are advised throughout a two-day listening to that medical proof reveals Archie is in a “comatose state”.
The mom of Archie Battersbee, Hollie Dance, proper, speaks to the media outdoors the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London (Dominic Lipinski/PA)
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– July 25
The three Court of Appeal judges rule that docs can lawfully cease offering life-support therapy to Archie. Again, the household announce plans to attraction to the European Court of Human Rights.
– July 28
Archie’s household fail to influence the Supreme Court to intervene within the case.
– July 29
Undeterred, the household make a “last-ditch” software to a UN committee to step in.
– July 31
The hospital caring for Archie says his therapy is because of be withdrawn on August 1 at 2pm. However, it’s confirmed that the Court of Appeal has granted a digital listening to for 11am on August 1 after the UK Government requested it to “urgently consider” a request from the UN committee to proceed his therapy so the committee may look at his case.
Archie Battersbee has been a eager gymnast (Hollie Dance/PA)
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– August 1
The Court of Appeal rejects a request to postpone stopping Archie’s therapy. It says his life-support care will finish at noon the next day.
– August 2
Archie’s mother and father are refused permission to attraction in opposition to the most recent ruling on the Supreme Court. Ms Dance says Barts Health NHS Trust will start to withdraw Archie’s life help on August 3 at 11am until the household have submitted an software to the European Court of Human Rights by 9am that day. The belief is not going to start eradicating life-support till all authorized points have been resolved.
– August 3
The European Court of Human Rights refuses the last-ditch software. Archie’s household say they intend to ask the High Court to permit the schoolboy to be moved to a hospice.
– August 4
Nearly 4 months after Archie suffered traumatic head accidents, his mother and father formally lodge High Court proceedings over the transfer to hospice care – one thing the hospital opposes. Archie’s care continues. A listening to takes place on the Royal Courts of Justice in London, lasting late into the night.
– August 5
Mrs Justice Theis guidelines it isn’t in Archie’s finest pursuits to be moved to a hospice. The High Court choose refuses the household permission to attraction in opposition to her ruling, granting a keep on the withdrawal of Archie’s therapy till 2pm on Friday to permit them to go on to the Court of Appeal.
Refusing permission to attraction, the Court of Appeal judges say Mrs Justice Theis’ ruling dealt “comprehensively with each of the points raised on behalf of the parents” and mentioned the proposed attraction had “no prospect of success”.
A bid to the European Court of Human Rights, arguing the High Court ruling violated the European Convention on Human Rights, additionally fails.
Archie’s household is advised his life help shall be withdrawn at 10am on Saturday, marketing campaign group Christian Concern says.
– August 6
Archie’s mom Ms Dance tells reporters outdoors the hospital that her son died at 12.15pm on Saturday.
She mentioned she was “the proudest mum in the world”, including: “He was such a beautiful little boy and he fought right until the very end, and I am so proud to be his mum.”
