12:30 PM
The five-year-old boy at the centre of a debate over parents' rights to choose what treatment their children receive, has died.
Cancer sufferer Liam Williams-Holloway died in Mexico on Wednesday morning New Zealand time.
Family friend Jude Battson says Liam's parents and siblings were with him at the time.
Arrangements are now being made for his body to be returned home to Lake Hawea in Otago.
Earlier this year Liam had surgery in Germany to remove a tumour in his forehead, before being taken to an alternative therapy centre in Mexico.
Liam's parents took the boy into hiding in 1999, rather than let him undergo conventional treatment for his cancer.
The case sparked debate over the rights of parents to decide what treatment their sick children should receive.
- IRN
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