A mum kicked her seven-year-old son out of his own bed in order for her carry out sex work with clients to fund her drug habit.
Laura Heath has been convicted of killing her son Hakeem Hussain as she “prioritised her addiction to heroin and crack cocaine” over the youngster’s health and wellbeing.
The schoolboy was made to live in squalor in the final months of his tragic and short life. Hakeem was forced to sleep on the sofa night after night as his mum commandeered the bed for sex work.
The 40-year-old used the cash she made to fund her drug addictions, while Hakeem was neglected in the filthy house. She left her son to die alone in the garden of their Birmingham home after he suffered an asthma attack and even used his inhalers to smoke drugs.Prosecutor Jonas Hankin QC said: “At Long Acre there was no bed for Hakeem.
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