A High Court judge has ruled that a seven-year-old boy with a brain tumour should undergo surgery against his mother's wishes.
Neon Roberts had a tumour removed last year and his mother Sally, who sparked a nationwide manhunt after going missing from an address in Tiverton, was fighting legal action for him to have radiotherapy.
Doctors told the High Court the question had now become whether he had to have an "urgent" operation because some of the tumour remained.
Mr Justice Bodey ruled the surgery should go ahead on Wednesday.
