Police to question parents of ill boy

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.

Police yesterday defended their decision to launch an international search for the child as it emerged that the Kings had travelled to Europe in a desperate bid to get treatment for their son.

They took Ashya from Southampton General Hospital on Thursday afternoon and travelled on a ferry to France with the boy and his six siblings before heading south to Spain. Brett King, 51, and Naghemeh King, 45, were arrested on Saturday by Spanish police acting on a European arrest warrant in Velez-Malaga on the Costa del Sol.