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UK drops warrant for ill boy’s parents
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UNITED Kingdom prosecutors are withdrawing the arrest warrant in the case of a British couple who took their 5-year-old son out of the country in hopes of getting a new type of radiation therapy for his brain tumor.
The Crown Prosecution Service made the move yesterday in a hearing at Britain’s High Court and said in a statement afterward they were “in the process of communicating this decision to the Spanish authorities so that they can be reunited with their son as soon as possible.”
Ashya King’s case has riveted Britain, with heated debate as to whether authorities acted appropriately in chasing the parents through Europe after they left Southampton General Hospital last week without doctors’ consent.
Prime Minister David Cameron, in an unusual step, waded into the debate, tweeting after the hearing that he welcomed the prosecution against Ashya’s “parents being dropped. It’s important this little boy gets treatment & the love of his family.”
Brett and Naghemeh King took Ashya out of England and traveled to Spain, where they planned to sell a property to pay at least US$33,000 for proton beam radiation therapy in the Czech Republic or the United States. They were arrested on a British warrant on suspicion of cruelty to a person aged under 16.
But police yesterday said the current situation was “not right.” Andy Marsh, chief constable of Hampshire Police, says their intent was to secure his safety — “not to deny him family support at this particularly challenging time in his life.”
A Spanish court spokesman declined immediate comment on when the parents could be released, but a lawyer for the couple said the judge has the options of releasing them immediately or having them stay overnight in jail to be released at the previously scheduled court hearing today.
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