Boy must have surgery despite wishes of his mother, court rules

A High Court judge has given the go ahead for a 7 year old boy with a brain tumour to have more surgery, overriding the objections of his mother.

Neon Roberts was at the centre of a nationwide search after his mother, who lives in Brighton, East Sussex, went into hiding with him to prevent doctors giving him radiotherapy after initial surgery for a medulloblastoma.1

But after magnetic resonance imaging showed a residual tumour or regrowth of 1.5 cm, Mr Justice Bodey authorised a further operation, despite opposition from the boy’s mother, Sally …