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Parents of Ashya King have been reunited with their son

The parents of terminally ill British child Ashya King (5) have been reunited with their son at a...
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09.18 3 Sep 2014


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Parents of Ashya King have bee...

Parents of Ashya King have been reunited with their son

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09.18 3 Sep 2014


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The parents of terminally ill British child Ashya King (5) have been reunited with their son at a hospital in Malaga. Brett and Naghmeh King were released from prison in Madrid yesterday after an extradition order against them was quashed.

They took their son from hospital in Britain without doctors' consent and say they intended to take him overseas for medical treatment.

Ashya King's medical records have now been released by British doctors.

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Mr and Mrs King have seen their son for the first time since being released, although Mr King claims they cannot move Ashya from the hospital in Malaga because of a court order obtained by Portsmouth Council.

When asked earlier if he would do the same thing again, Mr King told Sky News: "Of course. My son's worth everything.

"Worth me going to prison, worth everything, because they were going to kill him in England or turn him into a vegetable."

Mr King also gave a glimpse into the strain the ordeal had placed on his wife, Naghemeh, who was sat beside him.

He told a news conference she had spent most of the time in a Spanish prison crying and that he had considered moving cells because he could not bear listening to it.

He said: "Being locked up you can't do anything. You can't help your son, you can’t help your wife. And you don't know the future; what's going to happen to Ashya without us. We didn't know what was happening.

"Hopefully now we can see our son, we can be together, we can show love to him, because without that there's no purpose to life."

Dr Peter Wilson from Southampton General Hospital says they alerted police because they were not told Ashya was being removed.

But Mr King disputes this - and says he and his wife have been treated 'like terrorists'.

The proton clinic in Prague has said clinicians there are ready to treat Ashya after receiving his medical notes.

They have been in contact with Ashya's specialists at Southampton Hospital, who have agreed to refer him to the clinic after two cycles of chemotherapy in the UK, which is likely to take several weeks.

They were detained on Saturday near Malaga and taken to Madrid, where they were kept in separate jails, pending an extradition hearing.

But the UK Crown Prosecution Service decided to drop the case against them on Tuesday.


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