A mother encouraged her four-year-old daughter to eat sedatives because she felt she was an inconvenience to her relationship with her drug dealer boyfriend, a court has heard.
Poppy Widdison died in June 2013 after suffering a cardiac arrest at the ‘squalid’, drug-filled home of Michala Pyke’s partner John Rytting, Hull Crown Court heard.
Tests carried out after she died found that the youngster had ingested a variety of drugs for a period of up to six months before her death, including sedatives, heroin, methadone and ketamine, a jury was told.
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