This is the heart-stopping moment police forced their way into a loft where a woman was hiding with her baby after she allegedly told them: ‘I’ve killed him.’
Officers had been hunting for Emma Barnett, 36, after she failed to appear in person at a legal hearing which decided her 14-month-old son, Oakley, would be taken into care, a court has heard.
The mother-of-six, whose five other children had already been removed from her, fed her youngest child a ‘lethal cocktail’ of prescription drugs while they were concealed in her home as a ‘last act of control’, it is claimed.
The prosecution say
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