MALAGA/MADRID: The British parents arrested for taking their terminally-ill son Ashya King from hospital rushed to the five-year-old’s bedside in southern Spain on Wednesday after walking free from jail.

Brett King, the father of 5-year-old Ashya, told reporters in the Spanish city of Seville that everything he and his wife did for their son was for the boy’s own good.

He also said Wednesday that the British doctors treating Ashya were aware of the family’s plans to take him abroad but did not know exactly when that would happen.

The boy has a brain tumor and is hospitalized in Malaga, a 2-hour drive from Seville. The parents were incarcerated near Madrid on Monday and released Tuesday night.

“We are on our way to help my son,” Brett King said in his first public declaration since British prosecutors dropped extradition proceedings against him and his wife for taking Ashya, who has a brain tumor, without doctors’ consent. “We just want to show love to him because without that there is no purpose to life,” a visibly shaken King told reporters after he and Ashya’s mother Naghemeh, 45, were freed in Madrid late Tuesday.

“When we were in prison there was no minute that went by without our hearts hurting to see Ashya,” Brett King told a news conference in the southern city of Seville.