A mother who admitted to killing her terminally ill child with a large dose of morphine in 1981 has died after her own cancer battle.
Antonya Cooper, 77, died over the weekend after fighting incurable breast, pancreatic and liver cancer.
It comes shortly after she admitted to giving the dose to her child Hamish, who 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.
In a statement to the BBC, Mrs Cooper’s daughter said she passed away at home surrounded by family and it was ‘peaceful’ and ‘pain free’.