Mother jailed for killing brain damaged son with heroin jab

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.

Mother jailed for  killing brain damaged son with heroin jab

Frances Inglis, 57, was given a life sentence for killing her 22-year-old son, Tom, after he suffered severe head injuries when he fell out of a moving ambulance.

She gave a tearful and emotionally-charged account to jurors of how she had “no choice” and had done it “with love” to end his suffering. But a judge instructed them to put emotion aside and told them no one had the “unfettered right” to take the law into their own hands.

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