A mum has been found guilty of murdering her five-year-old son after poisoning him with anti-depressants. Emergency services were called to Limeside, Oldham, on New Year's Eve, 2021 following reports Dylan Scanlon was unconscious.
Neighbours and family members attempted to resuscitate him, but he was sadly pronounced dead. He was found with over 60 bruises to his head, face and body. A toxicology report concluded he had nine times the fatal limit of anti-depressants in his system.
The child's mother Claire Scanlon, 38, claimed he had fallen down stepladders and that he had been 'running around with the dog' just 20 minutes before reporting him unresponsive. She was arrested and later hospitalised under the Mental Health Act, during which she admitted to staff members at Edenfield Hospital: "I killed my son."
