A five-year-old boy was found with over sixty injuries to his body and nine times the fatal dose of antidepressants in adults, a pathologist has told a murder trial.
Dylan Scanlon was allegedly murdered by his mum, Claire Scanlon, 38, at their home in Limeside, Oldham on New Year's Eve 2021.
Ms Scanlon denies charges of murder, manslaughter and child cruelty and is on trial at Minshull Street Crown Court. On day seven of the trial, consultant pathologist Dr Charles Wilson told jurors that he had gone to the house on Elm Road on the night of the alleged killing to conduct a preliminary examination of Dylan. Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link He said that there was bruising of ‘various ages’ all over his face, neck, chin, both ears and he had a black eye.
Following a post mortem report, samples of blood were sent to a toxicologist who found that Dylan had 9,951 micrograms of the antidepressant drug Mirtazapine in his blood. “From a basic medical background, I can tell you that antidepressants can cause central nervous system depression.
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