'I smothered my son because I couldn't bear his suffering any more': Mother's despair after her son was ravaged by cruel genetic disease

Heather Pratten's son Nigel Goodman had Huntington's disease - a condition which had also killed his father. On his 42nd birthday, Nigel tried to take a heroin overdose, she told ITV's This Morning.



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