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A nurse who deliberately poisoned a young boy with 'industrial amounts' of laxatives has today been jailed for seven years. 

Tracy Menhinick, 52, was found guilty of 'wilfully' ill-treating the child in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or injury to health on various occasions over the course of three years from 2014.

She administered a non-prescribed medication, namely the laxative lactulose, which caused his development and mobility to be affected and led to him being admitted to hospital.

Menhinick, of Aberdeen, then consented to treatments, procedures and operations on the child which she knew were unnecessary, 'all

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