Mum who used son's inhaler as crack pipe jailed for 20 years following fatal asthma attack
The mother of a boy found dead in a freezing garden after an asthma attack has been jailed for 20 years.A court heard Laura Heath had prioritised her drug addiction over caring for him.
Her drug addiction had got worse in the months leading up to his death, to the extent she was paying £55 a day for mainly heroin and crack cocaine, paid for partly through sex work.On the night Hakeem had died, Heath had smoked heroin before passing out in the same bed as him. A post-mortem examination confirmed Hakeem died of uncontrolled asthma, and toxicology evidence proved he had inhaled tobacco smoke in the hours before his death.'Squalor, chaos and tragedy'
"It is clear that in his tragically short life [Hakeem] had been an inspiration of happiness and affection for people who knew him.
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