Ashya had successfully undergone surgery to remove the tumour but the hospital planned to treat him with radiotherapy to ensure the cancer did not return.
Naghmeh and Brett King wanted their son to get proton beam therapy instead, a similar treatment to radiotherapy which is thought to have fewer side effects, but was not offered on the NHS at the time.
Ashya was taken out of Southampton General Hospital and the family travelled to France. This sparked an international manhunt which resulted in the parents being arrested in Spain.
But the High Court eventually ruled that Ashya could get proton therapy in the Czech Republic. A decade later, he is still alive and the NHS now offers some brain cancer patients proton therapy.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13435169/truth-foreign-cancer-clinics-terminally-ill-child-experts-alarm-unproven-treatments.html
See: https://childnervoussystem.blogspot.com/2024/07/sounding-alarm-about-unorthodox-and.html
https://childnervoussystem.blogspot.com/2020/01/ashya-kings-3-year-remission.html
https://childnervoussystem.blogspot.com/2017/07/ashya-king-and-freya-bevan-updates.html
https://childnervoussystem.blogspot.com/2015/02/ashya-king-redux_24.html
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