Ashya King ‘can travel to Prague’

The parents of a sick five-year-old boy who hit the headlines after taking the youngster from a hospital without doctors’ permission, have been given the go-ahead to take their son to the Czech Republic for proton beam treatment.

A High Court judge last night said Brett and Naghmeh King could take son Ashya — who has a brain tumour — to a clinic in Prague to receive treatment not available in England.

Mr Justice Baker approved a treatment plan after telephone discussions with lawyers representing the Kings and the hospital in Southampton, Hampshire, where Ashya was a patient.