Rylan Clark on Archie Battersbee's 'heartbreaking' case

The 12-year-old boy, from Southend, is at the centre of a life-support treatment dispute after suffering brain damage following an accident in April.

Media personality Rylan Clark has said the case "puts everything into perspective".

Clark said on Twitter: "All that’s happening with that gorgeous little Archie Battersbee puts everything into perspective.

"That poor boy. So awful. Thinking of that family. Heartbreaking."

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His support for the family comes after Three Court of Appeal judges on Monday upheld a ruling by a High Court judge who had decided that doctors could lawfully stop treating Archie.

Archie's parents Paul Battersbee and Hollie Dance now want the United Nations to consider the case after losing life-support treatment fights in London courts.

This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby had previously shared words of encouragement for Archie's parents in the fight to keep him on life-support.

She called the youngster a "fighter, through and through".

Judges have heard how Ms Dance found Archie unconscious on April 7. She thinks he might have been taking part in an online challenge.

The youngster has not regained consciousness.

Doctors treating Archie at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, think he is brain-stem dead and say continued life-support treatment is not in his best interests.

Bosses at the hospital's governing trust, Barts Health NHS Trust, had asked for decisions on what medical moves were in Archie's best interests.

A High Court judge, Mrs Justice Arbuthnot, initially considered the case and concluded that Archie was dead.

But Court of Appeal judges upheld a challenge by his parents against decisions taken by Mrs Justice Arbuthnot and said the evidence should be reviewed by a different High Court judge.