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| Mother is guilty of murdering son | Mother is guilty of murdering son |
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| A mother has been found of guilty of murdering her disabled son by injecting him with a lethal dose of heroin at a Hertfordshire care home. | |
| Frances Inglis, 57, of Dagenham, Essex, denied murdering Thomas Inglis, 22, on 21 November 2008 and an earlier attempt to kill him on 4 September 2007. | Frances Inglis, 57, of Dagenham, Essex, denied murdering Thomas Inglis, 22, on 21 November 2008 and an earlier attempt to kill him on 4 September 2007. |
| But a jury at the Old Bailey found her guilty of both charges. She will be sentenced later. | |
| Mr Inglis suffered brain damage when he fell out of an ambulance in July 2007. | Mr Inglis suffered brain damage when he fell out of an ambulance in July 2007. |
| The jury reached their verdicts by a majority of 10 to two after deliberating for more than six hours. | |
| 'I injected him' | |
| There were cries of "shame on you" from the public gallery as the verdicts were read out. | |
| Before the jury went out to deliberate, Judge Brian Barker told them "there is no concept in law of mercy killing" and it is still killing. | |
| During the trial Inglis said: "For Tom to live that living hell - I couldn't leave my child like that. | |
| "I did it with love in my heart, for Tom, so I don't see it as murder." | |
| She told the court: "I held him, told him I loved him, told him everything was going to be fine, took the syringe, and I injected him in his thigh and his arm. | |
| "Then he went to sleep. He was at peace. I stayed with him." |