Archie Battersby’s family want an inquest after his death (Picture: PA)

Archie Battersby’s family have called for an urgent hearing into his death, saying no parent “should go through that again”.

A 12-year-old girl died Saturday morning at the Royal London Hospital.

His mother, Holly Dance, found him unconscious at her home in Southend, Essex, in April, and he has been in a deep coma ever since.

The student was at the center of a long legal battle between her parents and doctors to stop her treatment.

In a family statement released via Christian Concern, he said his relatives were “persecuted by the system and stripped of all rights”.

“We hope that something good will come out of this tragedy and the heartbreaking experience that the system has lived through,” they added.

Archie and his mother Holly Dance

Archie dancing Holi with his mother (Image: PA)

Undated Archie Battersby family distribution file photo

Baby Archie at the hospital where he died (Picture: PA)

“No parent or family should have to go through this again. In the face of an unimaginable tragedy, the Hospital Trust forced us into a relentless legal battle.

“The system put us in a difficult situation, stripped us of all rights and forced us to fight for Archie’s true ‘best interests’ and the right to live with everything that has been stacked against us.”

“This happens far too often to parents who don’t want their seriously ill child to be taken off life support.

Archie survived thanks to a combination of medical interventions, including ventilation and medication.

Archie Battersby Hospital Date Family Brochure Photo

Christian Concern helped her family in a legal battle (Image: PA)

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Holly (left) dancing with Ella Carter outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, East London

Family friend Ella Carter and Mrs Dance (left) outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, East London (Image: PA)

Undated family photo of Holly Dance and her son Archie Battersby in hospital

A devastated mother kisses her baby (Image: PA)

Doctors declared him “brain dead” and said he would never recover.

They argued that the young man should be taken off the ventilator, but his parents wanted him transferred to a hospice to die.

The latest request from the European Court of Human Rights to intervene in the case was rejected on Friday night.

Speaking in tears outside the hospital, Dance said her son died at 12:15 p.m. after treatment was stopped.

He described his son as a “very beautiful boy” who fought “until the end”.

Challenging the “Blackout Challenge” I saw on SNS earlier, where Archie was supposed to have suffered a supposed serious injury.

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