Wife asks judge to let her turn off crash victim husband's life support
A judge has been asked to decide whether doctors should stop providing life-support treatment to a soldier-turned-policeman who was left in a coma after a road accident.
A judge has been asked to decide whether doctors should stop providing life-support treatment to a soldier-turned-policeman who was left in a coma after a road accident.
Gulf War veteran Paul Briggs, 43, suffered a severe brain injury in a motorcycle crash while serving with Merseyside Police in July 2015.
His wife, Lindsey, says life-sustaining treatment should stop but doctors disagree.
Mr Justice Charles is expected to make a ruling after a hearing in the Court of Protection - where judges consider issues relating to people who lack the mental capacity to take decisions - in the near future.
He analysed preliminary issues at a hearing in London on Tuesday.
Normally, patients at the centre of Court of Protection litigation are not identified because judges aim to protect their privacy.
But Mr Briggs' accident has been widely reported, no-one involved in the litigation has asked for him to be anonymised and Mr Justice Charles says he can be named.
The judge has been told that doctors treating Mr Briggs have diagnosed him as being in a minimally conscious state.