for life support treatment to end. a high courtjudge recently concluded, on the balance of probabilities, that 12 year old archie was dead and ruled that doctors could lawfully stop providing treatment. three appealjudges analysed the case at a court of appeal hearing in london today and said there should be another high court hearing. our reporter, matt graveling, is outside the court of appeal. this story has had many twists and turns, many of them sad, over the last two and a half months because it was back on the 7th of april in southend on sea when archie s mum went back to their house and found archie unresponsive, on the floor, he had traumatic brain injury, she believes the taking part in some kind of online challenge, they rushed him to southend hospital and from there he was taken to london hospital and put in a coma, and it was from there that things started to get rather difficult. the doctors
court of appealjudges have ruled that a high courtjudge should reconsider the case of archie battersbee and decide whether it is in his best interests for life support treatment to end. a high courtjudge recently concluded, on the balance of probabilities, that 12 year old archie was dead and ruled that doctors could lawfully stop providing treatment. three appealjudges analysed the case at a court of appeal hearing in london today and said there should be another high court hearing. 0ur reporter matt graveling gave us this assessment from outside court. well, this story has had many twists and turns, many of them sad, of course, over the last two and a half months because it was back on the 7th of april in southend on sea when archie s mum, holly, went back to their house and found archie unresponsive on the floor. he had traumatic brain injury, she believes from taking part in some kind of online challenge. they rushed archie, the 12 year old, to southend hospital,
case and a court of appeal hearing and said that there should be a high court hearing. reporter met creatively is outside the court of appeal and matt, we have gone through a lot of twists and turns of the story, what if you can help us to understand exactly what is being decided and where that leaves the 12 year old and his family. the 12-year-old and his family. the court room 12-year-old and his family. the court room today 12 year old and his family. tte court room today was absolutely full of emotions, full of family wearing purple ribbons, including archie s mum knows the 7th of april when he went home to their house in southend and they found archie langdon conscious on the floor with traumatic brain injuries. she believes he has taken part in some online challenger was rushed us up in hospital and then he was taken to hospital in london and put in a coma and it s from there that things have been getting very, very difficult because the doctors the hospital thought that arch
family division of the high courts, acknowledging that she has now ruled that archie is dead and that life support treatment should stop but the hospital acknowledging that there will be time for the family to decide whether they want to appeal against that ruling. we will bring you more on that as we get it but that ruling is just through, it s been an incredibly difficult time for the family, who really wanted their son to be given more time to have a treatment to see whether he might be able to come through this. specialists at the hearing had said that scans showed he had suffered a retrievable brain damage after being found unconscious at his home in essex on the 7th of april. specially said that tests showed he was brain stem dead and that parts of the brain were effectively dying away.
community support officerjulia james who was murdered while she was out walking her dog. it s a grim case. out walking her dog. it s a grim case. ., . , , out walking her dog. it s a grim case. i, case. police community support officerjulia case. police community support officerjulia james case. police community support officerjulia james was - case. police community support officerjulia james was out - case. police community support i officerjulia james was out walking her dog on the 27th of april last year when she was attacked and hit repeatedly on the head. she had no chance of survival. the man who attacked her was callum wheeler from the local area, the police heard he had been waiting for a lone woman to attack and julia james was the woman he came across. the jury was sent out just after 3:15pm this afternoon, they deliberated forjust over an hour before coming back with a guilty verdict. at the start of the trial, callum wheeler had admitted that he was the one who killed