A TRAINEE nurse in London told a court how she injected her brain-damaged son with a lethal heroin overdose out of "love and not malice".
The Sun reports Ms Inglis's 21-year-old son, Tom, had been left helpless after falling from a moving ambulance in July 2007.
Ms Inglis injected Tom with heroin at a care home two months later to "put an end to his suffering".
Ms Inglis said she held her son and watched as his life slipped away, judges at the Old Bailey heard.
His heart stopped but he was revived by doctors.
So Ms Inglis, 57, tried again in November 2008 - and this time Tom died, the court heard.
The mother-of-three said she scoured the streets of East London to buy two grams of the drug from dealers.
For three days in September 2007 she took it in a stolen syringe to Tom's hospital bedside before finding a chance to inject it.
"I held him, I told him that I loved him," she said.
"He went to sleep. He was at peace."
A year later while on bail she injected him again, this time barricading the door to prevent any resuscitation.
Ms Inglis, of Dagenham, said: "I could see he was in terrible pain.
"I knew my poor baby was going through absolute hell."
She denies murder and attempted murder, saying she acted with "love and not malice".
The trial continues.
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