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Speaking after judges in Strasbourg refused an application to keep him on life support, his mother Hollie Dance admitted a dignified passing at a hospice was all she had left to fight for.
Archie Battersbee s life support will be removed at 11am this morning unless his family can appeal again to the European Court of Human Rights, having spent the night holding a vigil for their son.
The 12-year-old s family have been holding a vigil by his bed side at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel overnight where doctors were planning to turn off his ventilator at 11am.