Mother who poisoned her baby with powerful painkiller out of ‘a craving for attention’ is jailed for 12 years

Michelle Smith, was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum 12 years for the murder of six-week-old Amy. A shellshocked Smith was led away in tears today still protesting 'But I did not do it. I did not do it.' Moments before, a jury found her unanimously guilty of murdering the defenceless baby at home in Morriston, Swansea, south Wales, in November 2007. Smith, aged 34, poisoned baby Amy three times before finally managing to kill her. She crushed tablets of the powerful painkiller dihydrocodeine-prescribed only to adults-and fed it to Amy in her bottle feed. On the first occasion doctors could not find anything wrong with her and sent her home.

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