Ashya King: Hampshire police defend international hunt for missing child

Assistant chief constable Chris Shead said his force's decision to launch European-wide search was justified and appropriate

Police have defended the international search for a five-year-old boy with a brain tumour who was found in Spain after his parents removed him from a Southampton hospital without doctors' consent.

As the parents of Ashya King were under arrest on the Costa del Sol, Hampshire police said it made "no apology" for the high-profile publicity campaign, which the distressed family said had cast them as "kidnappers" and turned them into refugees.

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