A High Court judge set to make decisions today about the future of a 12-year-old boy at the centre of a life-support treatment dispute.

Mrs Justice Arbuthnot is due to make her ruling over the dispute about Archie Battersbee from Southend at a hearing today.

Doctors treating the boy at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, think it "highly likely" he is dead and say life-support treatment should end.

But his parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, from Southend, disagree.

Lawyers representing the Royal London Hospital's governing trust, Barts Health NHS Trust, have asked Mrs Justice Arbuthnot to decide whether doctors should continue treating Archie.

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The judge is scheduled to begin overseeing a final hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London on Monday.

She has heard that Archie suffered brain damage in an incident at home in early April.

Miss Dance has told how she found him unconscious with a ligature over his head on April 7 and thinks he might have been taking part in an online challenge.

The youngster has not regained consciousness.

One specialist told the judge at an earlier hearing that he thought scans showed that Archie had suffered "irretrievable" brain damage.

Two others said they thought tests showed that the youngster was "brain-stem dead".