ARCHIE’S mum has vowed to “fight to the end for Archie’s right to live” despite the “heart-breaking” decision by the European Court of Human Right to not intervene.

The European Court of Human Rights has refused an application by the parents of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee to postpone the withdrawal of his life-support.

His parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, submitted the application to the Strasbourg-based court just a couple of hours before Barts Health NHS Trust was expected to withdraw Archie’s life support this morning at 11am.

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Following the decision by the ECHR not to intervene in the decision, his mother, Hollie Dance, said it was “another heart-breaking development”.

In a statement, she said: “The NHS, the government and the courts in this country and Europe may have given up on treating him, but we have not.

“The whole system has been stacked against us. Reform must now come through Charlie’s Law so that no parents have to go through this.

“In a worst-case scenario, we want to take Archie to a hospice, but the hospital has said that we cannot do that despite previous promises.

“We have been told all along that this is all about Archie dying with ‘dignity’, and yet we are told we cannot take him to a hospice where it is quiet, and we can spend time with him as a family without the chaos at the hospital.

“We will fight to the end for Archie’s right to live.”