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CRIME: Couple accused of killing baby with methadone appear in court

They are charged with the crime of deliberately feeding their baby son the heroin substitute, methadone, month after month until he died. Mark Bate and Gemma Fennelly from Hartlepool - both heroin addicts - appeared in court today accused of manslaughter. Their 22-month-old son, Mitchell, died in September 2005. Doctors found significant amounts of methadone in his system. There was also evidence of cocaine and heroin in his body.

ITN Source | October 26, 2006Watch more videos from ITN Source

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