Mum, 34, held hand of dying son, 15, after pouring liquid morphine into his beer to get him ‘hammered’
A TWISTED mother held her dying 15-year-old son's hand after pouring liquid morphine into his beer to get him hammered, an inquest heard.
Holly Strawbridge, 34, hugged her son Tyler Peck as paramedics tried to save him after she gave him a deadly cocktail of prescription painkillers and booze which killed him.
Tyler had also taken Ecstasy, codeine and diazepan during the night at his home in Salcombe, south Devon, in February, 2019.
She poured liquid morphine into their beer and gave them strips of Gabapentin – a drug used to treat seizures - in Salcombe, Devon
Her husband Gavin and her four younger children were asleep upstairs as the tragedy unfolded.
HEART ATTACK
Yesterday, an inquest in Plymouth, Devon, heard that student Tyler died from high concentration levels of morphine and Gabapentin.
Tyler had gone to bed in the living room of his mother's home after the binge which also involved sniffing aerosols and smoking cannabis.
But the toxic drugs led to his central nervous system being depressed which affected his breathing and he slipped into a coma and died.
Lead paramedic Benjamin Nicholson raced to the scene and said Tyler had suffered a heart attack and was being given chest compressions as he lay on the living room floor the following lunchtime.
An air ambulance doctor found out that Tyler had taken an Ecstasy tablet, inhaled aerosols and smoked cannabis before he went to bed.
But as his mother hugged him on the floor, the paramedics stopped the CPR and he was pronounced dead at 11.58am on February 2.
Det Constable Mike Lugger, of Devon and Cornwall police, said Tyler had significant issues with drug and alcohol abuse - both illicit drugs and prescription medication - as well as mental health issues during his life.
DEADLY DRUG COCKTAIL
Earlier that day Tyler had been with friends to a house in a local village where they drank alcohol and Tyler took a MDMA tablet.
He and two teen friends later walked to his mother's home that night where more alcohol and drugs were consumed, the senior Plymouth and South Devon coroner Ian Arrow said.
Strawbridge poured cap fulls of liquid morphine, Oramorph, into their beer and gave them strips of Gabapentin, heavy duty painkillers prescribed for her own medical needs.
Det Con Lugger said Strawbridge supplied the alcohol and drugs to Tyler and one of his friends in her kitchen.
The detective said Strawbridge should have been the one person Tyler could rely on 'to protect him from harm' but she handed him the drugs which led to his death.
Strawbridge was convicted of child neglect and supplying class A controlled drugs and was jailed for ten years at Plymouth Crown Court in January this year.
Judge Paul Darlow told her: "You took a misguided pride that your house was a place where 14 and 15 year olds could go and get hammered."
During her trial Strawbridge tried to blame Tyler's 15 year old friends for what had happened, and was branded "callous and unreasonable" by the judge.
She claimed she hadn't supplied any drugs and there was a conspiracy against her.