A BABY’S life was cut short by exposure to his mum’s party drugs, a trial was told yesterday.
A pathologist said Olly-James Sievwright was “tipped over the edge” by mephedrone at just three months old.
Dr Tamara McNamee was giving evidence at the High Court in Aberdeen, where Amy Beck, 32, denies causing her son’s death by allowing him to ingest the stimulant, known as M-CAT.
The medic and a colleague carried out the autopsy on little Olly-James after he passed away in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, in December 2019.
They found he had peritonitis, often caused by a hole in the bowel.
Both the infection and drugs were listed as cause of death.
But Dr McNamee believed mephedrone exposure had “tipped him over the edge”.
She added: “I’m not saying it is the cause of death. It’s making death occur possibly sooner than it would otherwise.”
Later, Beck broke down as a statement she gave to cops was read out.
In it, she admitted taking “a line of cocaine” while out just hours before her son died.
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She added: “It didn’t hit the sides.”
Trial continues.
