Sentencing delay for mother who killed son
11:27, 20 July 2009
updated: 11:27, 20 July 2009
A mother who killed her 11-year-old son will have to wait to hear her fate because of a court delay.
Jennifer Taylor was due to be sentenced today (Monday) after confessing to killing son James.
The Wilmington Grammar School for Boys pupil was found drowned at their home in Knights Croft, New Ash Green, on December 2 last year.
Taylor, 44, who is being housed at Maidstone Hospital's Trevor Gibbens Unit under the Mental Health Act, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility.
But her sentencing has been delayed because two doctors needed to accompany her to Maidstone Crown Court are unavailable.
Court officials have not yet set another date.
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