A British High Court judge has ruled that the son of two devout Jehovah’s Witnesses can be given a blood transfusion despite religious objections from his parents.

A victim of domestic labour exploitation had told her story to Jehovah’s Witnesses who came to the door of her employer, eventually triggering her release, a conference on human trafficking heard yesterday.

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British police have arrived in Malaga to question the parents of Ashya King, the five-year-old boy with a brain tumour who was taken out of a hospital in the UK on Thursday without doctors’ consent.

Missing five-year-old Ashya King, who was taken by his parents from Southampton General Hospital without doctors’ consent, has been found in Spain, Hampshire Constabulary said.

The battery on the feeding system of a five-year-old boy with a brain tumour, who was taken from hospital by his parents without consent is "now likely to have expired," police said.

A High Court judge in England sought guidance from a 19th century English philosopher as he tried to decide whether a doctor could lawfully refuse to administer a blood transfusion to a mentally-ill sex offender who has adopted the Jehovah’s Witness faith.

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The High Court has granted a Dublin maternity hospital orders allowing it to perform, if required, an emergency blood transfusion to the unborn child of a Jehovah's Witnesses couple who is at risk of being delivered prematurely.

The High Court has made an order allowing the Coombe Hospital in Dublin to carry out an emergency blood transfusion on a baby girl born prematurely last week.

The High Court will tomorrow consider whether or not to order an emergency blood transfusion to a baby born prematurely a week ago in The Coombe Hospital, Dublin.

A couple will be sentenced today for the murder of a three-year-old boy who died in hospital on Christmas Eve.

YORKSHIRE Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, whose notorious murder campaign caused “widespread and permanent harm to the living”, will never be released, a judge ruled yesterday.

Michael Jackson allegedly used 20 aliases to apply for bank loans.

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Convicted killer and rapist Ian Horgan will have to wait to the New Year to find out if his appeal against the conviction he received for the robbery of a post office has been successful.

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YESTERDAY’S ruling that allows doctors to intervene and give blood transfusions to save the lives of two severely anaemic babies immediately after their birth, despite their parents’ objections on religious grounds, is very welcome.

A young African woman and a member of the Jehovah's witness faith who suffered a massive blood loss after giving birth in the Coombe hospital refused a transfusion on a number of occasions, the High Court heard yesterday.

The High Court has been told that an action brought by a Dublin Maternity hospital arising out of a decision to seek a court order to allow them transfuse a Jehovahs' Witness who had suffered a massive blood loss after giving birth to may last until Christmas.

A FOSTER mother who subjected three children in her care to a “horrifying catalogue of cruel and sadistic treatment” was jailed for 14 years yesterday.

MANY issues of a civil, ethical and religious kind flow from the decision of the High Court to grant the Coombe Hospital the right to enforce a Jehovah’s Witness woman to receive a blood transfusion against her will.

THE fundamentalist organisers of the ‘Free the DUP from Secularism’ campaign need have no fear that the party’s main movers are out of touch with the Lord.

A CLOSE family friend of the Jehovah’s Witness woman who objected to allowing her infant receive potentially live-saving blood transfusions on religious grounds said she was “very upset” that the issue had resulted in a high-profile court case.

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A FAMILY support group said yesterday it was concerned about misuse of a revolutionary new technique by which a British couple had a baby using a frozen egg from the mother.

Muslim extremists beheaded at least two of six Jehovah’s Witnesses they kidnapped in the southern Philippines and dumped their heads in a public market, authorities said today.

A seven-month-old Jehovah's Witness has had a liver transplant in one of the first bloodless surgeries on an infant.