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Mother Sentenced to 18 Years in Prison for Poisoning 5-Year-Old Son to Death

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.

Claire Scanlon (pictured), 38, was given the minimum-term life sentence today little 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 ▶