FIVE-year-old brain tumour patient Ashya King has left hospital in Spain, according to reports.

Footage at the Materno Infantil hospital in Malaga showed the boy's father Brett standing next to an ambulance.

Ashya's mother Naghmeh was understood to be travelling with her son in the ambulance while the boy's father followed in a taxi.

Ashya is expected to be flown to Prague for the proton therapy his parents want him to receive.

Doctors at the clinic were meeting this morning to discuss his treatment.

A spokeswoman for the Spanish hospital said: ''We don't have any new information. The doctors are deciding now.

''They are discussing if the boy can be admitted to hospital in Prague.''

Last night the director of the Materno Infantil hospital in Malaga, Manuel Paz, said Ashya was ''ready to leave their care'' and said the boy could leave in the early hours of this morning.

A private plane was reported to be waiting at Malaga airport.

Doctors in Prague are due to decide this morning whether Ashya can travel there for the pioneering treatment.

It had earlier been suggested that if they opted to receive him following the meeting at the Motol Hospital, they were expected to send a private medical jet to transport the boy from Spain.

The Proton Therapy Centre in Prague has said documentation from the hospital in Malaga will be reviewed before the child can travel.

Ashya's parents Brett and Naghmeh King, from Southsea, took him from Southampton General Hospital on August 28 without the permission of doctors.

They were arrested and held in custody in Spain after British police raised the alarm. They were released when prosecutors withdrew an arrest warrant in the wake of a public outcry.

The therapy centre's director of strategy, Iva Tatounova, has said no decisions will be taken before the meeting.

''Monday morning at 8 o'clock, in Motol Hospital, the best doctors and oncologic paediatricians will sit down to review this document, and therefore will be able to say, yes, he's capable of travelling to Prague,'' she said.

''We have to follow the standard procedures, which, if he comes on Monday night or Tuesday night or even Wednesday night, this doesn't make any harm to him, and the family can feel okay.

''Proton therapy will be part of his treatment. If he receives chemotherapy or not, this decision has to be made by Motol clinical oncologists, we don't do chemotherapy here.''

The hospital has said Ashya is in a stable condition, and that a flight to Prague would not pose a problem to his health.

Family lawyer Juan Isidro Fernandez Diaz told reporters the boy was ''in perfect condition to travel''.