When a floor lamp with a wide grey shade disappeared from the corner of Abby House’s living room at the end of 2024, her youngest son asked where it had gone.
Abby, a single mum, told her son who is now 11 years old, that the lamp was broken so she had thrown it away.
But the truth was that Abby had sold the lamp online – along with countless other items from around the house – to pay for her out-of-control addiction to cocaine.
The mother of two had been using cocaine for more than 15 years and more recently had become
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