Anorexia victim can be force fed via tube, judge rules

A 21-year-old student whose weight has dropped to just 5½ stone (36kg) is to be force fed through a tube on the orders of the High Court.

High Court President Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns made the order to allow the woman to be fed through a tube over the next 48 hours when he heard the anorexia sufferer began refusing food at the weekend and is in “danger of losing her life”.

The woman, who cannot be identified, is significantly underweight and suffers from severe psychotic depression, hears a critical voice saying she is obese, and believes she does not deserve to live, the High Court was told.