• United Kingdom British Justice decides to disconnect the brain-dead boy who hanged himself for a TikTok challenge

  • United Kingdom The British Supreme Court prevents Archie from ending up in palliative care

Archie Battersbee

's agony

came to an end this Saturday with the disconnection of the assisted breathing machine that had kept his heart beating

since he went into a coma last April.

The

12-year-old

boy has died at the Royal London Hospital supported by his mother,

Hollie Dance

, and other family members.

"I have done everything I promised my boy I would do for him," the mother told Sky News.

Archie

suffered irreversible brain damage when

, the family suspects, he took a dangerous breath-hold test, the so-called

'blackout challenge'

circulating on social media.

Dance discovered her son unconscious at home

with a noose around his head on the afternoon of April 7.

She was transferred by ambulance to the local hospital in Southend, in the east of England, and

later to the British capital.

Dance has been fighting ever since against the medical and judicial authorities to prolong her son's life and avoid a scheduled death.

But

the legal route was exhausted on Friday the 5th

, after a hard and accelerated process of multiple resources and appeals, which jumped from the English family court, to the

British Supreme Court

and to the European Court of Human Rights.

The United Nations Committee for

the Disabled also intervened

in an effort ultimately to no avail for

Archie's relatives

.

"All legal routes have been exhausted. The family is devastated," a spokesperson confirmed.

Archie's parents, Dance and Paul Battersbee, his brothers and brothers-in-law, said goodbye to the little boy at the London hospital.

Groups of young and old gathered at a vigil outside the compound of this historic clinical center in the east of the capital.

The tragic case has renewed the

debate on the child protection system

when the relationship and trust between the family and medical experts is broken, as has happened in this instance.

Decision-making is then

at the mercy of the judges

and, on this occasion, the sentences handed down have gone against the will of Archie's parents.

"As a mother, I want to know that I have done

everything in my power for my child

," the despondent woman told the media before saying goodbye to her young son.

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