- Title: SPAIN: British parents of seriously ill boy still unable to visit him
- Date: 3rd September 2014
- Summary: MALAGA, SPAIN (SEPTEMBER 03, 2014) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF ASHYA KING'S PARENTS BRETT AND NAGHEMEH WALKING TOWARDS HOSPITAL ENTRANCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) BRETT KING, FATHER OF SERIOUSLY ILL BRITISH BOY ASHYA, SAYING: "Not good because Portsmouth in England, they want to take...they have taken the custody away. So they won't let me see my child." REPORTER ASKING: ARE YOU GOING TO SEE YOUR CHILD TODAY? BRETT KING SAYING: "No, no because I'm not, I don't have custody of my child. Yesterday, they served papers on me to take away the custody so what Prime Minister said of England and the minister of salud (Spanish) minister of health said didn't work because me and my wife we don't have the custody." VARIOUS OF KING SPEAKING TO REPORTERS
- Embargoed: 18th September 2014 13:00
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- Location: Spain
- Country: Spain
- Topics: Legal System,Health
- Reuters ID: LVADXM7ZJYSA9WONUDXLMN2EQ9DN
- Story Text: The father of five-year old British boy Ashya King said on Wednesday (September 3) he and his wife were unable to be reunited with their seriously ill son as custody of the child has been taken away from them.
"They have taken the custody away so they won't let me see my child," Brett King said as he arrived at the Malaga hospital where his son is being treated since the parents were arrested on Saturday (August 30).
Brett and his wife Naghemeh spent two days in a Madrid jail and were released on Tuesday (September 2) night following a Spanish judicial order and after the United Kingdom authorities announced they will drop charges against them.
The high-profile case of the parents' arrest and separation from their son prompted British Prime Minister, David Cameron, to call for "an outbreak of common sense" amid widespread condemnation in the country's media of the British police's pursuit of the couple.
The parents of Ashya King, who has a brain tumour, were separated from their son on Saturday (August 30), following a two-day cross-border manhunt initiated after they ignored medical advice and removed him from a hospital in Southampton, southern England, and took him to Spain.
The boy's parents have said they took him out of hospital because they wanted him to receive a different type of treatment, prompting questions about whether the British police overreacted in launching a Europe-wide manhunt. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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