Police say they are 'making enquiries' after a mother admitted giving her terminally ill young son a dose of morphine that 'did quietly end his life'. Hamish Cooper, who had a rare childhood cancer, was aged seven when he died at home in December 1981. He was five when he was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma and had been 'in a lot of pain' by the end of his life, according to his mother Antonya Cooper, who is now living with her own incurable cancer.
'He was expressing that he had pain and I said, 'Would you like me to take the pain away?' 'He said, 'Yes please, Mama', and so I gave him a dose of morphine sulphate through his Hickman catheter.' 'We had watched him brave through all that beastly treatment, we had had him for longer than the original prognosis, so the time was right,' added Ms Cooper, a former chair of Neuroblastoma UK.
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