Cancer patient Ashya King, six, whose parents were arrested for taking him abroad for pioneering treatment is back in the UK after being given the all clear
Ashya King, six, taken to Spain by parents last year for cancer treatment
Case sparked controversy after parents were arrested, then released
Ashya was given all clear in March after Proton Beam Therapy procedure
Brett and Naghmeh King delayed returning in case Ashya was taken away, but returned to Gatwick Airport yesterday
By Sara Smyth for the Daily Mail
Published: 03:17, 3 July 2015 | Updated: 13:05, 7 July 2015
Ashya King, the six-year-old cancer sufferer whose disappearance from a Southampton hospital last year sparked an international manhunt, has been brought back to live in the UK.
After being declared cancer-free in March, Ashya flew into Gatwick Airport with his family yesterday.
He said: ‘We are coming home to live and I am excited to be back. I want to see my grandma.’
Ashya King, the six-year-old cancer victim whose parents were hunted by social services last year after taking him to Spain for specialist treatment (pictured), has returned to the UK
After several rounds of pioneering treatment proton beam therapy, Ashya was declared cancer free back in March and arrived back into Gatwick airport yesterday (file image)
His parents, Brett and Naghmeh King, 52 and 46, have returned after receiving assurances they face no legal action for taking him to Spain without his doctor’s consent.
They had previously been too scared to return home in case social services took Ashya from them.
Mr King, 52, told the Sun: ‘Ashya is so glad to be back. The whole family’s relieved to be back where we belong — this is our home.
‘Now we just want to carry on with life and continue to do what is best for Ashya.’
Their return comes 11 months after they took their son from his bed at Southampton General Hospital and travelled to Malaga in search of alternative treatment, without telling his doctors.
A frenzied hunt for the Kings was launched last August after the little boy was reported as missing.
The search became all the more desperate after medical experts told police the battery in Ashya’s tube feeding unit was due to run down and his life was ‘in grave danger’.
Ashya’s family later said they in fact had a power cord for his feeding system in the car and spare food for his tube to sustain him.
Mr King, a Portsmouth property developer, said he was forced to flee the country with his family because of fears over his son’s treatment.
Ashya King's mother says she is happy his treatment is finished
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