Life at stake for boy with tumour taken from hospital by parents

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.

Ashya King’s family took him from Southampton General Hospital at around 2pm on Thursday and travelled on a ferry to France some two hours later.

Hampshire Constabulary were told by the hospital that the youngster was missing at 8.35pm that night — more than six hours after he was taken by his parents, Jehovah’s Witnesses Brett King, 51, and Naghemeh King, 45.