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.

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.