Naghmeh King made the decision to remove her five-year-old son Ashya, who was suffering from brain cancer, from a hospital in Southampton when it was ascertained that a particular treatment could not be made available to him on the NHS.
Having sparked an international manhunt after removing Ashya from hospital care last summer, the child's parents eventually received approval from a high court judge which allowed Ashya receive proton therapy in Prague, a form of treatment which is said to be more effective than the radiotherapy the little boy was being offered in Britain.
The NHS eventually agreed to fund Ashya's treatment and his overjoyed mother stands by her decision to remove her son from the UK hospital,saying: "If we had left Ashya with the NHS in Britain, he wuld not be with us today. He was too weak and would not have survived."
The couple, who were arrested in Spain following their decision to withdraw their son from hospital, maintain that their actions were justified, with Ashya's father Brett saying: "We have saved his life."
Expressing reluctance to return to the UK, Ashya's parents are now aiding their son's recovery, which they have dubbed 'miraculous', in their holiday home in Marbella.
