NHS radiologist told father to seek foreign aid

The father of Ashya King has revealed that he was convinced to seek help for the five-year-old in the Czech Republic after an NHS radiologist told him proton beam therapy was "superior" to conventional treatment.

Brett King and his wife Naghmeh sparked an international police hunt when they removed their son from Southampton General Hospital on August 28 without medical consent and took him to Prague to receive proton therapy on brain cancer.

King, 51, has previously spoken out about a threat by doctors to take Ashya into care if the parents refused to accept conventional radiotherapy, a claim the hospital has denied, and, in an interview in the Daily Mail, he revealed it was a consultation with an NHS radiologist that convinced him that they had to leave.