Accused mother lived in ‘nightmare’

A MOTHER who strangled her severely autistic son was living in a “nightmare” caring for him and her three other disabled children, a court heard yesterday.

Yvonne Freaney, 49, had to cope with 11-year-old Glen as well as his older siblings who suffered from ADHD, dyspraxia and Asperger’s syndrome respectively.

The mother-of-four is accused of killing Glen at a hotel near Cardiff Airport, Wales, because no one else would look after him.