He threatened to break his son's legs if he told anyone.
A father forced his own son, 12, to take a potentially lethal dose of methadone so he could give him a urine sample that would fool a drugs-testing assessment.
James Major, 40, threatened to break his son’s legs if he told anyone after crushing the heroin substitute tablets into his blackcurrant juice. After taking the methadone the boy fell down some stairs and ended up ‘groggy’ and ‘lethargic’ in hospital, a court heard.Major even tried to cover up what he had done and claimed his son was ‘milking it’.He was jailed for four years after putting his son’s life and welfare in jeopardy.Fortunately, the boy made a full physical recovery.Nigel Clive, prosecuting, said that Major crushed one or two tablets into a cup of blackcurrant juice and asked his son to drink it.
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