A DEVOTED mother who injected her brain-damaged son with a fatal dose of heroin as an act of mercy, believing he was suffering a painful “living death”, failed to overturn her murder conviction.

A mother who gave her brain-damaged son a lethal heroin injection to end his “living hell” launches a conviction appeal today.

Author Terry Pratchett will tonight call for assisted suicide to be legalised as two polls revealed most people back the move.

A MOTHER who gave her brain-damaged son a lethal heroin injection to end his “living hell” was told yesterday she must serve at least nine years in jail.

A mother who gave her brain-damaged son a lethal heroin injection to end his “living hell” faces a life sentence after being found guilty of murder in the UK today.