A baby boy died of dehydration after his mum inhaled lighter fluid which led to her to her death on Christmas Eve. A post mortem concluded Natalie Kane's little boy Harry may have survived for two to three days before succumbing to the effects of dehydration.
An inquest held on Tuesday heard Natalie died as a result of substance abuse. The 27-year-old had previously suffered with addiction and had no drugs other than her prescribed methadone in her urine when it was checked one week before her death.
However, on the night of Christmas Eve, she seemingly decided to inhale butane with catastrophic results, LancsLive reports. The alarm was raised days later and paramedics were 'visibly upset' at the scene they found in the flat in Whitehaven in Cumbria on December 30.
