{"id":609248,"date":"2026-05-28T22:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609248\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:26:10","slug":"loughton-mother-emma-barnett-guilty-of-killing-son-oakley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609248\/","title":{"rendered":"Loughton mother Emma Barnett guilty of killing son Oakley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The judge said Barnett had tried to hang herself with police present and had taken an overdose of paracetamol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Her intention was to take her own life but only at the point Oakley would be removed from her by police,&#8221; the judge said, summing up Barnett&#8217;s defence case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nicola Pope, senior Crown prosecutor, said: &#8220;This was an extremely tragic case, which had a profound impact on everyone involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I hope that today&#8217;s outcome provides some measure of peace to Oakley&#8217;s family and loved ones during this deeply upsetting time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An IOPC spokesperson said it had received a mandatory referral from Essex Police into the handling of its missing persons search for the pair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All officers involved were treated as witnesses throughout our investigation which concluded in July 2025,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We found there was no indication any officer had committed a criminal offence or behaved in a manner justifying the bringing of disciplinary proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;However, as a result of our investigation, we have identified potential learning for Essex Police in relation to house searches in missing person investigations and we are consulting with the force to progress this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The judge said Barnett had tried to hang herself with police present and had taken an overdose of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-609248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}