Overview
- A jury at Teesside Crown Court concluded on Friday that Louise Cameron gave her eight-year-old son morphine and methadone-laced blackcurrant juice.
- Prosecutors say Rhys died during the weekend of September 13–15 and family members discovered him dead at the Billingham home on September 15.
- Forensic evidence presented at the hearing showed methadone in the remaining drink bottle and both methadone and morphine in Rhys’s blood.
- Cameron was found unfit to plead, so jurors conducted a fact-finding hearing instead of a standard criminal trial and she watched proceedings by video link from hospital.
- Court reporting says Cameron left a note expressing suicidal intent and told hospital staff she had killed Rhys; sentencing on September 18 could result in a hospital order or detention.