Found Alive UK - Ashya King, 5, Southampton, 28 Aug 2015

[ZaZara]

Peter Henley, reporter for BBC:

Peter Henley ‏@BBCPeterH

Portsmouth Council leader call for #AshyaKing to be re-united with parents, backs social services over ward of court pic.twitter.com/lUTG2zISyG





Dear Ms Donna Jones, the court order stipulated considerably more than the simple fact that Ashya should be taken to the nearest hospital !

 

[Supernovae]

More background on Wardship:

http://www.tonyroesolicitors.co.uk/news/news.php?ID=300

Comment piece by Max Pemberton (Dr):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/11068128/Ashya-King-should-be-treated-in-Britain.html

 

[ZaZara]

Jon Haworth, Deputy Foreign News Editor at Sky News and Assignment Desk Editor at CBS New
@JonHaworthSky

Jon Haworth ‏@JonHaworthSky 3 min

#BREAKING: The parents of #AshyaKing have been called back to court in Madrid tomorrow morning at 11:00am to decide on extradition.




BBM

 

[Supernovae]

There may be live tweeting from court:

https://twitter.com/IanWoodsSky/status/506778092040626176

 

[ZaZara]

EXPERTS: SPANISH COURTS HAVE LITTLE LEEWAY TO REFUSE EXTRADITION

The Guardian reports:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...stion-approach-british-authorities?CMP=twt_gu


Ashya King: legal experts question 'heavy-handed' approach
Legal steps to protect five-year-old boy with brain cancer have ended up separating him from his family


Anthony Barnfather, partner at Slater & Gordon, who has extensive experience in dealing with European arrest warrants, said
there would be very little leeway for the Spanish court to refuse the extradition. He said the English police should travel to Spain to interview the parents and subsequently drop the charges, if satisfied that the Kings were simply attempting to get Ashya proton beam treatment and had taken necessary precautions with respect to his health.

"The irony in this case if you're looking at harm to the child, isn't it a little cruel keeping parents away from the child?" he said.

Trevor Tayleur, associate professor at the University of Law, said that the parents wishes would be considered by the high court in exercising its wardship but that the Kings might not be able to have representation at Tuesday's review hearing, given that they are behind bars in Spain. He suggested that their incarceration could also present a further obstacle to the wardship being lifted. "If they [the parents] are unable to take an important decision about the child's welfare because they are in prison then that could have an impact," he said.

BBM


Since Hampshire Police has not withdrawn the EAW yet, we must assume that what is happening now and will happen next, is wanted by the British officialdom. :-(

 

[ZaZara]

DANIEL HANNAN: UK AUTHORITIES NEED TO WITHDRAW WARRANT IMMEDIATELY



Politician Daniel Hannan writes
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/d...ialdom/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

I’m working on getting my constituents, Brett and Naghemeh King, released from jail and reunited with their sick child.

The Spanish judicial authorities, with whom I have been in touch, have no discretion, because the Kings were subject to a European Arrest Warrant. The EAW allows no scope for flexibility, for common sense or for humanity. A document that, we were told, would be used against terrorists is now being used in the most Draconian way imaginable. I can’t imagine why, having opted out of the EAW, Theresa May chose to opt back into it – but that’s an argument for another day.

The immediate priority is for the UK authorities to withdraw the warrant. The heavy-handed way in which this case has been handled reflects badly on all concerned: the hospital, the police, the CPS and, for what it’s worth, Hampshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, whose initial reaction was, as usual, to back the bureaucracy. We have seen British officialdom at its worst: authoritarian, self-righteous and blundering. A five-year-old child is paying the price.


BBM

 

[Supernovae]

Image from inside court:

https://twitter.com/Sharky57/status/506800693421035520

 

[ZaZara]

GOVERNMENT INTERVENES IN ASHYA KING CASE


The Guardian reports:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/02/ashya-king-clegg-criticises-full-force-law?CMP=twt_gu


The government has contacted police and health officials to see whether Ashya King, the five-year-old cancer patient currently in hospital alone in Spain, can be reunited with his mother and father, as Theresa May told the Commons attempts to extradite the parents to Britain were being reviewed.

The new interventions follow a mounting chorus of voices calling for Brett and Naghmeh King, currently held in separate Spanish prisons after removing their son from a Southampton hospital without doctors' consent to seek alternative treatment abroad for his brain tumour, to be brought to Málaga, where Ashya is being cared for at a children's hospital without his family.

David Cameron's spokesman said the Home Office had been in touch with Hampshire police force over the case, while the Department of Health contacted Southampton hospital. The hospital first raised the alarm on Thursday after Ashya was taken away by his parents.


BBM

 

[Supernovae]

Live Twitter feeds from court:

https://twitter.com/Sharky57/
https://twitter.com/IanWoodsSky/
https://twitter.com/callummay

 

[ZaZara]

BREAKING:


Sky News Newsdesk ‏@SkyNewsBreak 2 min.

Reuters: Spain's state prosecutor will request the release of #Ashya King's parents from police custody


BBM


Oh Glory Be .....

 

[ZaZara]

CPS TRYING TO WITHDRAW EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT



Ian Woods, reporter for SkyNews:

Ian Woods @IanWoodsSky · 52 sec.

Lawyer says the CPS are trying to withdraw the European Arrest Warrant and process may be underway. #AshyaKing


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[ZaZara]

JUDGE CONCERNED ABOUT SEPARATION ASHYA AND PARENTS



Ian Woods @IanWoodsSky · 51 sec.

Judge: I am very concerned that this little boy has been separated from his parents. #AshyaKing

Judge. Whatever rights and wrongs of treatment and other issues I am concerned that he is still separated from his parents. #AshyaKing


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[ZaZara]

JUDGE: BETTER FOR ASHYA TO GO STRAIGHT TO PRAGUE


Ian Woods @IanWoodsSky

Hospital lawyer agrees with judge what parents are asking is not unreasonable but they cannot offer proton treatment. #AshyaKing


Judge says it would be better for #ashyaking to go straight from Prague from Spain rather than coming back to UK first.


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NB This is a hearing, not a verdict

 

[ZaZara]

HEARING ADJOURNED TILL MONDAY

Ian Woods @IanWoodsSky

Judge says adjournment until Monday will allow parents to engage the process and a decision can then be made #AshyaKing

Judge wants parents to put forward their treatment proposals. Hospital lawyer says no treatment is not an option #AshyaKing

Judge wants parents to file their treatment and cost plan for #ayshaking by Friday at 2pm to be discussed at the next hearing on Monday







BBM


:cheer:

 

[Aeronomy]

All the tweets and the three twitter links posted above are very informative! Thank you!

 

[Lilibet]

Good News! Arrest warrant withdrawn

The parents of Ashya King will face no further action and should be reunited with their son, say prosecutors.

The Crown Prosecution Service has withdrawn a European arrest warrant enabling Spanish police to detain Brett and Naghemeh King.

Prime Minister David Cameron welcomed the moves to reunite the family.

A CPS spokesman said it had "urgently reviewed the case" and found "insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction for any criminal offence".

"We have therefore decided to stop the criminal proceedings," he added.

In a tweet, Mr Cameron said: "I welcome the prosecution against #AshyaKing's parents being dropped.

"It's important this little boy gets treatment & the love of his family."

"We are now in the process of communicating this decision to the Spanish authorities so that they can be reunited with their son as soon as possible," the CPS said.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has described as "very unfortunate" the taking of five-year-old Ashya's parents into custody.

"There've clearly been misunderstandings along the way, but right now we want to focus on getting the right treatment for Ashya," he said.

"I hope we have a good resolution in place where they can get good independent advice that they trust."

Mr Hunt said a cancer specialist was being sent to Spain to offer advice on Ashya's case.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-29036154

 

[Lilibet]

Ashya's Parents are Free!

Message from Naveed: https://www.facebook.com/naveed.king?fref=nf

Much more information: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...rs-withdraw-arrest-warrant-ashya-king-parents

The parents of Ashya King have been released from prison and are expected to be reunited with their desperately ill son on Tuesday night, the couple's lawyer has said.

Brett and Naghmeh King were released from separate wings of a Spanish jail hours after prosecutors in London terminated a European arrest warrant and said the couple would face no charges.

The dramatic development meant the couple were free to leave Soto del Real prison near Madrid and make the five-hour journey to be reunited with Ashya, who is receiving urgent medical care for a brain tumour at a children's hospital in Málaga.

Evidence showed the parents had taken steps to safeguard Ashya's health and two independent medical experts had indicated the risk to Ashya's life "was not as great as had been originally thought", the CPS said in a statement.

Southampton magistrates court – where proceedings had been lodged – has now dropped them and discharged the case. Soon after a judge in Spain fast-tracked approval for their release. A source at Spain's Audiencia Nacional – the country's central criminal court – said they had been "working at top speed to make sure the Kings do not have to spend another night in prison".

 

[ellie b]

Thank goodness, common sense has prevailed.

 

[gitana1]

Good News! Arrest warrant withdrawn

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-29036154

It's great news but I want to see someone pay for this! These poor people had to suffer tremendously and so did their tiny son, ill and alone. The authorities in Britain far overreached and I'm sure this happens all the time. They have only changed their mind because of intense, international scorn and pressure. Sadly, many families don't receive the same press. What happened here was disgusting. I hope there are fat lawsuits. And I'm sick of hearing how there were "miscommunications". An arrest warrant and taking a child into care, separating him while ill from his family, is not a "miscommunication". It's a decision.

I don't believe the welfare of Ashya was the most important thing to these authorities. I think maintaining their power was.

 

[Little Jedi]

Thank goodness, common sense has prevailed.

:happydance:Amazing what can be done when 'authorities' use it ~ that & a little push from the 'common people' :biggrin:

Ashya King Petition Delivered to 10 Downing Street

ethan dallas
Portsmouth

Thank you so much - all 140,000 of you! - who have signed this petition in support of reuniting Ashya with his parents.

"I'm 16 years-old and never thought I would be stood in front of 10 Downing Street delivering a message to the Prime Minister, but when I saw what was happening to our neighbours, the King family, I knew I had to do something and so started this petition on change.org"

"spoke to Ashya's brother last night and he is so thankful you to everyone that is supporting them."

* From e-mail received re. petition