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Hotelier Jeremy Mogford and sister deny killing their 100-year-old mum with morphine
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Prosecutor Julian Christopher KC told Oxford Crown Court the pair gave Pamela Mogford at least four times the morphine her GP had injected that evening, using Oramorph, a liquid form of the drug. Sarah Pickering's texts included "I am actually killing her", but her barrister says it was gallows humour. The siblings, who are on bail, say their mother was in pain.
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