A "caring and loving" mother helped end her daughter's life following a 17-year battle with illness by handing her a lethal dose of morphine and a cocktail of drugs. Bridget Kathleen Gilderdale passed two syringes filled with large doses of morphine to 31-year-old Lynn Gilderdale, who injected the pain-relieving medicine herself in a suicide attempt at the family home, the court was told.
When it emerged that the dosage had not been enough, the mother searched the house for tablets which she crushed with a pestle and mortar and administered to her daughter through a nasogastric tube. In the hours that followed, Gilderdale, gave her three syringes of air through an intravenous catheter with the intention of causing air embolisms. Miss Gilderdale, who had ME (myalgic encephalopathy) – an illness that causes severe and debilitating fatigue – from aged 14 and required round-the-clock care, died later that morning. Guardian
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