'Radiotherapy is plain torture': Neon Roberts' mum stands by legal fight to prevent his brain tumour treatment

The mum who tried to stop her son from having radiotherapy to fight a brain tumour said her boy is more at risk now hes being treated.

Sally Roberts, 37, went on the run with Neon, seven, last year before a court ordered him to have the treatment.

Although the youngster has a survival rate of up to 82% now, Ms Roberts said she was upset by the decision to press ahead.

Asked for her view on the legal battle, she told BBC Radio 5 Live's Victoria Derbyshire: "I stand by that. I'm upset that they moved forward in the way they have.

"I'm having to face the side-effects from the radiation and the chemotherapy, which is devastating."

Ms Roberts, a New Zealander living in Brighton, East Sussex, said "weak and fragile" Neon was "more in jeopardy now".

She said: He is not able to go to school and his immune system is very much down.

He is suffering from chronic fatigue, constipation, nausea, loss of appetite, weight loss, hair loss, reduction in saliva, damage to the salivary glands and poor short-term memory.

But, despite the side-effects, Ms Roberts said she has been told the success rate from having the treatment has been put at between 67% and 82%.

She said: "I have never doubted that he was not going to be alive at the end of this, with or without treatment.

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'Radiotherapy is plain torture': Neon Roberts' mum stands by legal fight to prevent his brain tumour treatment