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23mo Daniel Jones Dead From Heroin Overdose: Parents Plead Not Guilty

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The parents of a 23-month-old baby boy who died from a heroin overdose have both pleaded not guilty to his manslaughter.

Simon Jones and Emma Bradburn have appeared at Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court today charged with killing of their son, 23-month-old Daniel Jones.

The 29-year-old man and 33-year-old woman from Wolverhampton, are charged with manslaughter by causing or allowing the death of a child.

Ms Bradburn and Mr Jones spoke only to confirm their names, addresses and date of births and entered pleas through their solicitors.

There was no application for bail and they were were both remanded in custody.

Paramedics were called to a house in Windsor Avenue, Penn, Wolverhampton over the death on May 29.

Forensic tests have since revealed he died as a result of a heroin overdose.
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Social services, police and the Probation Service were today meeting to discuss the death. It is not known if the child was known to social workers.

Wolverhampton City Council said the serious case review sub-committee of its Safeguarding Children's Board will meet this afternoon to consider the case.
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Ms Bradburn and Mr Jones are both due to appear at Wolverhampton Crown Court on March 7.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...r-died-heroin-overdose-deny-manslaughter.html
 
The mother of a 23-month-old baby boy who died from a heroin overdose has admitted playing a part in his death.

Daniel Jones was found dead at the family home in Wolverhampton in May last year. Tests later revealed that he died from a heroin overdose and his parents were arrested in December.

Today, Emma Bradburn, 33, pleaded guilty to causing or allowing his death at Wolverhampton Crown Court.

The child’s father, Simon Jones, 29, denied the same charge as he stood alongside her in the dock during the short hearing.

Both defendants pleaded not guilty to a separate charge of manslaughter in the case. They will stand trial later this year.
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Jones and Bradburn were remanded in custody and will return for a plea and case management hearing charges on May 17.

They will be tried for manslaughter at Nottingham Crown Court in July.
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I Will Never Forgive You

Newstarshipsmell, I will never forgive you for posting that pic, no not ever. You can, beg, you can plead, you can truly show remorse. While I may move on, you will never be forgiven. Ever.

P.S. Does anyone know how to clean vomit from a keyboard? Something tells me duster won't cut it...
 
I make no secret about being an addict in recovery and when I got bad, I got really bad. I look at pictures of myself then and just shake my head, not a day goes by that I don't apologize to my children and do everything in my power to show them that I am not that same person. But even at my worst, and I was fucking horrible, I still had the few working brain cells that told me to keep the drugs away from my children. I was going to kill me, it would sure as hell kill them! God, I need to teach a class on that!
As a side note, the lovely teeth, or lack there of, is from smoking, probably meth to get "up" after shooting heroin which is a downer.
 
Simon Jones pleads guilty to manslaughter
The 23-month-old boy is feared to have died after picking up and swallowing a wrap of heroin at the house he shared with his junkie parents in a leafy suburb.

Tests revealed that when Daniel – who was known to the city council and recieving multi-agency support – died, there was enough of the drug in his body to kill an adult.

Further examination of hair samples from Daniel disclosed he had suffered ‘chronic exposure to cannabis and opiates’ and ‘occasional exposure to amphetamines and cocaine’.

It was not possible to say with certainty whether this cocktail of drugs had been ingested or picked up from the atmosphere, nor was it clear over what period of time that had happened.
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A burnt piece of foil used for smoking heroin was discovered in a drawer on one side of the bed while a needle and spoon were lying in another drawer on the other side. Cannabis leaves were drying in a wardrobe 4ft from where the child slept.

Emma Bradburn admitted to police that she smoked heroin while her partner confessed to injecting the drug when he could not get his methadone prescription. Both were ‘recovering’ heroin addicts.

Officers found cannabis drying in other upstairs rooms at the house, including a spare bedroom in which the leaves were draped over a child’s bucket. The parents insisted Daniel did not use this room because he always slept with them. Twenty cannabis plants were discovered growing in the loft. Experts estimated the crop would have been worth more than £3,000.

Bradburn maintained that she had not smoked cannabis in the bedroom with her partner the night before the body of the child was discovered. She also maintained she never smoked heroin or cannabis in front of the child.

She realised something was wrong when she woke shortly after 5.40am on May 29 last year in the bed in which the three of them slept ‘topped and tailed’ – the parents at one end and the child at the other.

She noticed that Daniel’s hand was cold and he did not appear to be breathing. She later told police he had something like ‘stale milk’ in his mouth. She tried to resuscitate him while her partner phoned for an ambulance in a 999 call timed at 5.45am.
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The child was sick before dying. The vomit contained a piece of cardboard that investigators believe had been a drug wrap. Forensic examination established it had the DNA of Daniel on it and so it could be linked to the child, although it could not be proved conclusively to have been swallowed by him because the cardboard could not be tested for saliva.
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With his guilty plea to manslaughter, Daniel’s father has admitted responsibility for the heroin that inadvertently claimed the life of the child.

Bradburn has already admitted causing or allowing the death of her son. Her plea of not guilty to manslaughter has been accepted. The parents were arrested on suspicion of producing cannabis on the day the body of their son was found.
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They were detained again on December 12 after the results of toxicology tests revealed the part their drug-fuelled life had played in the death of Daniel.

Both have been in custody ever since – initially for their own safety. Bradburn was badly hurt in a car accident and now uses a wheelchair. She is understood to have received substantial damages which friends say was used to buy the upmarket house in Penn in which her son died.
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Mrs Julia McSorley, the senior Crown Prosecutor who reviewed evidence and authorised the charging of the couple, said: “The parents’ role is to protect and nurture their child. Instead the defendants exposed Daniel, a vulnerable 23-month-old child, to drugs. Sadly this ultimately resulted in his death. I worked closely with the prosecution team of police and lawyers who all worked extremely hard on this case. I believe we have achieved justice for Daniel.”

Wolverhampton City Council today said the child was known to them and recieving multi agency support although had not been the subject of a child protection plan.
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Pair Sentenced. Photos released:

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These shocking pictures reveal the inside of a couple's drug-riddled home where their 23-month-old son died after swallowing heroin they left next to his cot.

Simon Jones, 30 and Emma Bradburn, 34, were jailed today after negligently allowing Daniel Jones to ingest the Class A drug.

While the shameless pair kept their downstairs living room clean and tidy, the upstairs of the property was covered in drug paraphernalia.

In one shot, Daniel's green dummy lies on the couple's unmade bed which is littered with beer cans and bottles of medicine.

A bedside draw shows a plastic kinder egg container next to a dirty syringe and a spoon used to cook drugs.

Another picture shows a red plastic child's bucket overflowing with cannabis leaves which Jones grew in the loft before drying them in Daniel's bedroom.
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Jones, 30, was sentenced to six years behind bars after previously admitting manslaughter by gross negligence.

Bradburn was also jailed for four years after she admitted allowing the young boy’s death.

Sentencing the couple at Wolverhampton Crown Court today, Mrs Justice Thirlwall said there was no doubt the two - both long-term heroin addicts - had loved their boy, but added: 'It is one thing to risk your own health, but quite another matter entirely to risk your son’s.'

She said: 'He (Daniel) was utterly reliant upon you for every aspect of care in his life.'
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Neil Moore, for the Crown, said it was not known exactly how Daniel came to ingest the drug, but that when Bradburn woke on the morning of May 29, she found her son lying next to her, 'icy' to the touch, 'blue' in colour and unresponsive.

The boy had also been sick and medics had to remove vomit from his airway.
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In interview, Jones told police he smoked cannabis daily and heroin three times a week, but tried never to do so in front of his son.

He had taken the precaution of turning the drawers of his bedside table - where he kept a syringe, foil and cigarette papers - to face the wall so Daniel could not get at them, telling police his son was at the age where 'everything goes in his mouth'.

Bradburn said she smoked cannabis in the garage.
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Mrs Justice Thirlwall told Jones and Bradburn: 'You failed woefully to protect him from the very obvious dangers you exposed him to.

'The danger was mortal danger as you should have realised.'
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Examination of a sample of Daniel’s hair revealed the presence not only of heroin, but also amphetamines, cocaine and cannabis.

Both Jones and Bradburn said they never smoked heroin or cannabis in front of their son.

But it was revealed that Daniel slept in his parents’ bed, where police found tin foil stained with a brown residue, empty clingfilm packets and other paraphernalia associated with the transport and use of heroin in the room’s bedside tables.

When police searched the rest of the family home, they found a cannabis factory in the loft where more than 30 plants were growing.

Mrs Justice Thirlwall told Jones he had set up the cannabis-growing operation 'in the home your son was living' and said to Bradburn that despite her claims not to have known the scale of that operation, she still knew of it and did nothing to stop it.
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The court also heard that just two weeks before his death, social services removed Daniel from a child in need plan as they were satisfied with the care he was receiving at home.

Detective Inspector John Smith, of West Midlands Police public protection unit, said Daniel's life was 'needlessly cut short' because of his mother and father's actions.

He said: 'His parents were unable to prioritise their son's needs before their own.

'It was a gross betrayal of trust - they led a lifestyle which was not conducive to being responsible parents.'

Mr Smith went on: 'There are no winners in this case. Daniel's parents face lengthy spells in jail having lost their only son, while the wider family continue to grieve the boy's unnecessary death.'
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If he had survived, Daniel would have celebrated his third birthday last week.
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