I’ve been looking for an article that got me the core information on this. I only first heard about it today.
Then I caught this line early in the OP: “...and the British justice system...”.
So, it’s not in the U.S. Which changes my take on the whole thing.
No see if they brought the kid to the USA he might just live and that would make the English Hospitals look bad and we can’t have that now can we?