An “evil” mother from Tipton killed herself and her five-year-old son out of spite after becoming depressed over the end of her relationship with the boy’s father, an inquest heard today.

Emma Hart, aged 27, was found dead in her mother’s home in Henley Close on December 9 last year.

She had slit her wrist and taken an overdose of painkillers.

Her son Lewis Dangerfield was found at the home they shared in Walker Street, Tipton shortly afterwards.

She had given him a fatal dose of sleeping tablets the previous day before taking a taxi to her mother’s.

Black Country coroner Robin Balmain said she was filled with “uncontrollable rage and hatred” to his father Shaun and recorded that she killed herself after unlawfully killing Lewis.

He said: “I can’t imagine anything quite so evil as a mother who was prepared to kill her own son out of spite.”

A note she left to her former partner Shaun Dangerfield said: “I told you I would make you pay.

“Enjoy your life as you have nothing to stop you. Ha, ha, ha.

“Just remember it’s all your fault.”

The coroner added she was jealous over Shaun’s relationship with someone else.

The inquest heard that she had suffered a dramatic weight loss in the weeks before the tragedy and had told people she was suffering from three types of cancer but had refused chemotherapy.

Shaun Dangerfield, Lewis’ father, said he left her 14 months before she died over her violent rages.

The coroner added that Emma’s hatred of Shaun was “totally unjustified”.