Two legal cases dealing with the rights of family members to decide life or death for a critically injured loved one have touched off a storm of controversy on both sides of the Atlantic, landing one ...

A mother who gave her brain-damaged son a lethal heroin injection to end his “living hell” launches a conviction appeal today. Wed, 21 Jul, 2010 - 10:11 A mother who gave her brain-damaged son a ...

Frances Inglis has been given a life sentence after being found guilty of killing her 22-year-old son Thomas. What drove a mother to inject her own child with a fatal dose of heroin when she was ...

It is natural but futile to examine the face of Frances Inglis for signs of the torment that led her to give her severely disabled son a fatal injection of heroin. Her blank, straightforward gaze and ...

A mother who gave her brain-damaged son a lethal heroin dose believed she had not killed him but 'saved him from a living hell imprisoned in a useless body,' the Old Bailey heard today. Frances Inglis ...

Every night of the five years she spent in prison for murder, Frances Inglis went to sleep thinking of her son Tom and the 22 years they shared before she ended his life. She wept inconsolably as she ...

A DEVOTED mother who injected her brain-damaged son with a fatal dose of heroin as an act of mercy, believing he was suffering a painful “living death”, failed to overturn her murder conviction.

A mother gave her brain-damaged son a fatal overdose of heroin after admitting she had tried to kill him before as an ‘act of mercy’, a court heard yesterday. While on bail, ‘obsessive’ Frances Inglis ...

Mother Frances Inglis undoubtedly took the law into her own hands by killing her brain-damaged son. Yet the court case raises important legal issues. She was convicted of murder because, as the judge ...

A mother murdered her disabled son "out of love" as she believed he was already dead, according to a friend and neighbour. Speaking to the BBC, Sharon Robinson described how Frances Inglis, 57, ...