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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/29/parents-take-boy-brain-tumour-hospital-southampton
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...5-brain-tumour-snatched-hospital-parents.html
A major search and social media campaign is under way to find a five-year-old boy with a brain tumour after he was taken from hospital by his parents without the consent of doctors.
CCTV footage showed Ashya King being taken in a wheelchair by his father, Brett King, from Southampton General hospital at around 2pm on Thursday. His family – including his mother, Naghemeh King, and six siblings – then boarded a ferry from Portsmouth to Cherbourg in northern France.
Ashya is in a wheelchair and is fed through a tube. The feeding system is battery operated and that battery will run out today.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...5-brain-tumour-snatched-hospital-parents.html
His family, who live in Southsea, Portsmouth, belong to the Jehovah's Witness religious movement, whose followers often refuse blood transfusions on religious grounds.
Asyha was taken into hospital a month ago and doctors operated on the tumour, but later updates from the family to friends spoke of continued tests and a 'short life expectancy'.
He had since stayed in the hospital, with his family keeping a bedside vigil until yesterday, when his father failed to return him after telling nurses they were going to a Costa Coffee shop in the building.
Police said the family arrived in France at 8pm local time last night and are travelling in a grey-coloured Hyundai I800, registration KP60 HWK.
They were unable to confirm whether a return ferry ticket had been booked, saying it was a line of inquiry.
Anyone with information about Ashya's whereabouts should contact Hampshire Constabulary on 101, quoting Operation Aquilion.