Ashya King waves after final proton treatment in Prague


  • Ashya King, 5, had the last of his 30 treatments in Prague this morning
  • But he will not return to UK because parents fear authorities will take him 
  • This week was seen smiling on first visit to a park since treatment started  
  • Brett King: ‘There is so much still at stake. We wouldn’t want to lose Ashya’ 
  • Czech doctors say he has benefited from treatment but not ‘fully recovered’
  • Parents removed Ashya from Southampton hospital and sparked manhunt 
  • Claim NHS treatment would have left him deaf, blind and brain damaged 

Martin Robinson for MailOnline

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Wrapped up against the cold and clutching one of his favourite toys, brain cancer patient Ashya King waved from his wheelchair today after his final session of proton therapy treatment.

But the five-year-old, who has been treated in Prague for six weeks, will not return to Britain because his parents do not feel ‘safe’ enough to return.

The Kings sparked an international manhunt when Ashya was taken from Southampton General Hospital because they believed NHS treatment would have left him deaf, blind and brain damaged. 

They were traced to Spain where at the request of the British authorities Ashya’s parents were put in a prison and the five-year-old held in hospital under armed guard with no family allowed to see him.

His father Brett said today: ‘At the moment we don’t feel 100 per cent safe contemplating being in England.

‘There is so much still at stake. We wouldn’t want to lose Ashya. It would probably never happen but just having that small risk that you don’t have to do anything wrong to have your children taken away and be thrown in prison’.  

Brave: Ashya King waves as he leaves the thirtieth and last of the proton treatment sessions at the Proton Therapy Centre in Prague, Czech Republic today

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