A mum was found dead in her flat with her five-month-old baby next to her – dehydrated but alive. Courtney Newlands, 19, lay in her flat for two days before police broke down the door prompted by her anxious family.
They found the young mum lying on the couch with baby Declan beside her in his cot.
Courtney’s mum Lorraine and sister, also Lorraine, 23, had become concerned because they had not not heard from the teenager, as the close family spoke every day.
It is thought that she may have suffered complications from Type 1 diabetes, caused by the pregnancy.
But so far tests have not given medics any definite clues about the cause of her death, which is suspected to have happened between February 19 and February 20.
Declan was rushed to hospital and kept in for two days after being treated for dehydration but is now at home, being cared for by Courtney’s sister Lorraine.
Lorraine, 43, who lives in Pollok, Scotland, said: “I think it’s affecting us more because we don’t really know what happened. “They way we are looking at it, is, if it had been one more day would Declan be here?
“It’s a shame because he was crying the other day and I played a video of Courtney and he just stared at her phone. He stopped crying straight away.
“We are going to keep playing them because it will make him feel as if she’s still there.”