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An Oldham mother has been sentenced for murdering her five-year-old son.

Remorseless Claire Scanlon (pictured), 38, was given the minimum term life sentence today little for killing her son Dylan Scanlon, 5, whose badly bruised body was found on her bed.

Claire Scanlon, 38, was convicted of killing her son Dylan Scanlon (pictured), five, yesterday after his lifeless and heavily bruised body was found on a double bed in her home on NYE 2021 in Oldham.

Claire Scanlon, 38, has been found guilty of murder after it was discovered her five-year-old had been poisoned with anti depressants - despite her claiming he had had died from a fall

Claire Scanlon gave five-year-old Dylan her antidepressants and beat him to death, prosecutors say.

Dylan Scanlon was allegedly murdered by his mum, Claire Scanlon, 38, at their home in Limeside, Oldham on New Year's Eve 2021. Ms Scanlon denies charges of murder, manslaughter and child cruelty and is on trial at Minshull Street Crown Court

An inquest has been opened into the death of Dylan Scanlon, 5. who was found dead in his home on New Years Eve, as the boys mother, 36, faces a murder charge.

Claire Scanlon, 36, has been charged with murdering five-year-old Dylan Scanlon after the happy and cheeky boy was found dead at his home in Limeside, Oldham on New Years Eve.

A woman has been charged with murdering a five-year-old boy who was found dead at a house in Oldham.

Dylan Scanlon was pronounced dead by emergency services in Oldham on 31 December last year.