# Browns brasserie founder’s 100 year-old mother was given just hours to live before he and his sister allegedly murdered her with morphine overdose, court hears

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/browns-brasserie-founders-100-year-old-mother-was-given-just-hours-to-live-before-he-and-his-sister-allegedly-murdered-her-with-morphine-overdose-court-hears/
- Published: 2026-11-11T15:07:54+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T15:19:30+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16284573/Browns-brasserie-founders-100-year-old-mother-given-just-hours-live-sister-allegedly-murdered-morphine-overdose-court-hears.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Jeremy Mogford and Sarah Pickering deny murdering their mother.
- Pamela Mogford was 100 and seriously ill before her death in 2022.
- Jurors heard evidence about morphine treatment and messages from Pickering.

## Summary

Browns Brasserie founder Jeremy Mogford and his sister Sarah Pickering are on trial accused of murdering their 100-year-old mother, Pamela, by giving her a morphine overdose to hasten her death. They admit giving her morphine but deny intending to speed her death, saying they acted out of mercy because she was in pain.

The court heard Pamela had suffered a suspected abdominal aortic aneurysm and refused hospital treatment; paramedics reportedly told her carer she might not live much longer. Her GP visited three times and gave her morphine on two visits, while the carer said Pamela appeared to be in agony. Prosecutors cite Pickering’s messages, including “I am actually killing her”; both defendants also face an alternative attempted murder charge.

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