A two-year-old boy ‘will never walk again’ after his mum knowingly trusted her drug dealer to drive her children home.

The child was left paralysed from the waist down after sustaining a spinal cord injury following a car crash, which also seriously injured his siblings.

Shayna Bowman, 29, allowed her two sons and daughter to sit in the back of the Audi A3 that her drug dealer, Rhys Farry, 30, was driving, knowing he had consumed alcohol and taken cocaine before taking the wheel.

Rhys was more than seven times over the drug driving limit when he drove the family home after tests revealed he had 357mg of cocaine in his blood.

The limit is 50mg. The incident happened in Henbury, Macclesfield, on April 20 when Rhys overtook traffic before colliding with a vehicle and ploughing into a tree

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