Jehovah Witness Father Says He'll Go Against Religion And Allow Son To Have Blood Transfusion

Ashya King’s dad has vowed to let the five-year-old brain cancer victim have a blood transfusion if needed – despite it being against his religion.

Brett and wife Naghmeh are devout Jehovah’s Witnesses who have brought up their seven ­children in the faith, which says it is a sin to accept a blood transfusion.

But Brett, 51, is determined to see desperately ill Ashya get better and is willing to do whatever it takes – even if it means defying his own strongly-held beliefs.



He said: “I’m a Jehovah’s Witness, but I’m a father first – and I’d do anything for my son.

“If a child needs treatment they should give them the treatment. It’s not for the parents to say. We just want the best for Ashya.”

The family was in the Czech Republic yesterday where Ashya was preparing for the first of 30 sessions of £70,000 radical proton beam therapy, starting in the capital Prague tomorrow morning.

Culled From Daily Mirror