Death of boy ‘may have been hastened’ by morphine given by his mother – inquest

Antonya Cooper with son Hamish in 1981 (PA) - (PA Media)

The death of a cancer-stricken boy in 1981 “may have been hastened” by a morphine overdose his mother claimed she gave him, although there was no evidence to show it happened, an inquest has heard.

Antonya Cooper’s son Hamish had been suffering from stage 4 neuroblastoma – a rare childhood cancer – when he died at home aged seven on December 1 1981.