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Boy needing urgent cancer surgery vanishes - judge | Boy needing urgent cancer surgery vanishes - judge |
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A 10-year-old boy who has jaw cancer and needs urgent surgery has vanished, a High Court judge has said. | A 10-year-old boy who has jaw cancer and needs urgent surgery has vanished, a High Court judge has said. |
Mr Justice Mostyn said the boy, who has not been identified, is Polish and could be in Poland with his parents, whom he urged to comply with doctors. | |
Details of the case emerged in a ruling following hearings in the Family Division of the High Court in London. | Details of the case emerged in a ruling following hearings in the Family Division of the High Court in London. |
A doctor has told the judge the boy will die a "brutal and agonising death" if a tumour is not removed "very soon". | |
Mr Justice Mostyn said the boy, who had lived in England with his parents for two years, was at risk of "serious harm" and the risk was growing each day. | |
The judge said there was evidence the boy had left his home with his mother two weeks ago, and that the boy's father had boarded a ferry bound for France in the past few days. | |
Mr Justice Mostyn said he had made an order saying efforts should be made to find the boy. | |
The Polish embassy in London was being alerted, he added. |