A British woman who gave her brain-damaged son a lethal heroin injection was told today she must serve at least nine years in jail.
Frances Inglis (57) was given a life sentence for killing 22-year-old son Tom after he suffered severe head injuries when he fell out of a moving ambulance.
She gave a tearful account to jurors of how she felt she had “no choice” and had done it “with love” to end his suffering.
But a judge instructed them to put emotion aside and told them no one had the “unfettered right” to take the law into their own hands.
Inglis, with an address at Dagenham, east London, was found guilty today of both murder and attempted murder.
She first tried to end his life in September 2007 and was charged with trying to kill him before going back and succeeding in November 2008.
Judge Brian Barker told her: “We can all understand the emotion and the unhappiness that you were experiencing.
"The fact is that you knew that you intended to do a terrible thing. You knew you were breaking society’s conventions, you knew you were breaking the law, and you knew the consequences.”
PA