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The hospital in Malaga that treated Ashya King has confirmed that five year old Ashya has left the facility with his family to travel to a clinic in Prague.

After leaving the Materno Infantil hospital, five year old Ashya boarded a plane heading for the clinic in Prague where it is hoped he will undergo proton therapy treatment.

The journey to the airport took place in an ambulance, and from the airport he left in an airplane fully equipped with everything necessary to ensure he can receive any treatment he may need during the flight to Prague.

Not a lot of comment from Southampton Hospital (unsurprisingly since someone suggested the family might sue) but the Paediatric Dept now require all parents taking a child from the ward to sign giving a time they will return according to local news.

According to some reports, it appears, that Ashya will remain a Ward of Court until he actually arrives at the Proton Therapy Centre in Prague, at that point he will cease to be a Ward of Court.

The High Court Judge Mr Justice Baker, who is dealing with the case, is expected at a hearing to be held this coming Monday, to explain why he decided to rescind the Ward of Court Order and return Ashya to his parents - that might make interesting reading.

I hope that all goes to plan and that Ashya arrives, as soon as is practicable, at the centre in Prague and that he will benefit from the treatment he is going to receive there.

This whole saga reminds me of a couple of episodes of the television series - Judge John Deed.

Just been announced that Aysha's parents can take him for treatment.
Possibly flying by private jet.
At last sanity prevails

Media hype of how the hosptial handled Ashyas stay in hosptial,,,Joe Public wasnt allowed access so how does anyone know<?,,,,,,,,we dont know that there wasnt english or english speaking staff doing his care.

Any guarding was possibly done incase some screwball tried to take him,thinking they were doing the family a service,

The Times sums up this ridiculous situation created by the authorities:-

"It took five days for the state’s case against Ashya King’s parents to collapse. Five days of increasing public outrage as it became clear that the authorities who were accusing the Kings of cruelty and neglect were in fact guilty of it themselves. In the name of protection they forcibly separated a seriously ill child from the people who loved and cared for him, handcuffed and jailed his parents, forbade his brothers and sisters from visiting him, and placed Ashya under police guard in a foreign hospital where neither his nurses nor the officers could communicate with him."

I think we will now see various enquiries being launched into what happened, these enquiries will cost the taxpayer thousands of pounds - they will probably cost far more than the cost of the specialist treatment that Ashya's parents want for him :-S

Yep...found it now!!

jude

Ah, Sky news this morning says he is a ward of court.

Beautiful picture of the three of them:)

lovely picture on BBC news just now of Ashya with his Mum and Dad in the hospital in Malaga

Just watched the BBC 1 news, no mention of the Portsmouth Custody order!!

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jude

Its on Sky news,,,,Brett King is quoted .

""Portsmouth council have placed a temp order on Ashya,""

Rrrr...don't know about that then, but the BBC news was updated at 19.50pm....fingers x'd they have seen him and no further problems has been put on them??

jude

I saw that, Jude, but Naveed said on his FB page that they council were going to court.

Maybe they changed their minds.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29050499

jude

I can't see anything on the news, so maybe not.

Naveed King says his brother has been made a ward of court.

"UPDATE: Just to say that Portsmouth City Council have taken custody of Ashya from us, we need to urge them to drop this ridiculous ward of court and return Ashya to his family!"

they were allowed to see him

UK cancer charity to fund Ashya King's treatment - a cancer charity in Derby said the King family have accepted their offer to pay the full cost of the proton beam treatment for five-year-old Ashya.

Kidsncancer chief executive Mike Hyman told ITV News they have been inundated with donations from the public following the arrest of Brett and Naghmeh King. He said:

It will take at least a £100,000, and probably a £150,000 to pay for the treatment as well as the cost of accommodation for the months of the treatment for the family. It is our wish that they come back from wherever they go they are not in debt, and can return to their normal life.

The situation they have been through is absolutely appalling. To be imprisoned like criminals, 300 miles away from their sick child is disgraceful and disgusting.

I have been overwhelmed by the generosity of the public, who obviously feel like we do that this family deserve support at this desperate time.

AnnCardiff - have they been allowed to be with him, I ask because ITV were reporting that his parents are saying they are being stopped from seeing him.

Speaking to a throng of media as he arrived at the hospital, Brett King said:-

"Portsmouth have taken the custody away, they won't let me see my child.

"Yesterday they served papers on me to take away the custody so what the Prime Minister said, and the Minister of Health, hasn't worked because me and my wife don't have custody."

Asked what his next move would be, he said: "To be arrested, I think."

I think when the father gave the above interview he got what he wanted to say a bit muddled up because on the BBC it has reported that family members are at the hospital and confirmed that the Kings were with their son.

:-S :-S :-S