A terminally ill mother has been jailed for 18 years after she murdered her five-year-old son with anti-depressants in an apparent double suicide attempt.
Claire Scanlon, 38, was given the minimum-term life sentence for killing Dylan Scanlon, whose badly bruised body was found on her bed.

Prosecutors told the court the mother had first informed her uncle in a nearby property that her son was ‘not breathing’ or ‘moving’ at 6.15 pm on December 31. Read the full story here ▶