A mother who denied killing her baby despite confessing ‘I killed him’ to officers during a stand-off at her home was convicted of murder today.
Mother-of-six Emma Barnett, 36, had already had her five older children taken away by the authorities when she learned 14-month-old Oakley was to be removed from her care too.
In what the prosecution described as a ‘last act of control’, she hid with him in her loft and fed him a ‘lethal’ cocktail of prescription drugs from his bottle and a syringe.
He was unresponsive when police finally discovered her hideaway and lost his battle to survive weeks
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