Police investigate mother who said she helped her ill son end his life

Police are 'making enquiries' after a dying mother has admitted to killing her terminally-ill seven-year-old son by using a large dose of morphine to 'quietly end his life'. Antonya Cooper, from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, said her child Hamish had stage 4 cancer and was 'facing the most horrendous suffering' before his death in 1981. The former chair of Neuroblastoma UK revealed the youngster had been 'in a lot of pain' as he reached the end of his short life. She said Hamish was 'telling me he was in pain and asking...