Father jailed for 8-month-old son’s cocaine death

A FATHER has been jailed for life after his baby son died from sucking on his cocaine-tainted fingers.

Dennis Ray Driver, 26, was convicted of murdering his eight-month-old son, Dennis Jnr.

Driver said he fell asleep at his apartment in Houston, Texas with his son lying on his chest. When he awoke, the baby was not breathing. The boy died the next day in hospital.