A mother mixed a ‘lethal cocktail’ of prescription drugs and gave them to her young child in a last ‘act of control’ before he was taken into care, a court heard today.
Emma Barnett, 36, is said to have ‘set a false trail’ by informing the authorities she had driven to woodland with her 14-month-old son, Oakley, before ‘holing up’ in her loft.
By the time police found them, she had allegedly fed him the deadly concoction from a syringe and bottle.
Officers and a neighbour who happened to be a paediatric doctor fought to save the toddler by giving him CPR but
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