Mother told police of strangling autistic son

A MOTHER who killed her severely autistic son by strangling him told police she had sent him to the “kingdom of heaven” where he would be happy without the disability, a court heard.

Yvonne Freaney said she killed her 11-year-old son Glen at a hotel near Cardiff Airport, Wales, because nobody else would look after him.

The 49-year-old admits manslaughter but denies murdering Glen, whose body was found in a room at the Sky Plaza Hotel in May last year.