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NHS to fund Ashya King's treatment in Czech Republic

The NHS is to pay for five-year-old brain tumour patient Ashya King's proton beam therapy treatment in the Czech Republic.

His parents Brett and Naghemeh King sparked an international police hunt after they took their son out of Southampton General Hospital and travelled to Prague for the treatment which was not available for him on the NHS.

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Ashya's father: Doctors 'threatened to take him away'

The father of Ashya King has claimed British doctors warned the family not to question his treatment or they would "take him away until he was 16".

Brett King told the Daily Mirror doctors at Southampton General Hospital told him they would "take my son away" if he questioned them over the five-year-old's treatment for brain cancer.

Ashya King's father Brett made the comments in a newspaper interview. Credit: Alex Diaz /PA Wire

“Eleven years without us, he wouldn’t know his parents, his brothers, his sisters or anyone. We couldn’t question them any more," Mr King said.

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust declined to issue an official statement, the newspaper added.

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