Tragedy of BBC woman hooked on sleeping pills: Boyfriend is jailed for three years
THE parents of a former BBC secretary who died after she became hooked on sleeping pills condemned the boyfriend who supplied her with drugs.
Mother-of-two Aiveen died after accidently taking an overdose at the flat she shared with Gary
Privately-educated Aiveen Chamberlain, 40, was found dead after accidentally taking an overdose of liquid opiate Oramorph at a flat she shared with Gary Godfrey, 54, in Stockport.
Her father, Dr Patrick Chamberlain, 81, said at the family’s £600,000 home in nearby Mellor: “Aiveen didn’t take any drugs before she met this man. She was vulnerable and he took advantage of her.”
Godfrey claimed he was helping the mother of two “regain control of her life” but he was in fact supplying her with drugs.
Manchester Crown Court heard tragedy struck in April 2013 when Godfrey's brother Mark, 49, gave him 17g of morphine in two litres of Oramorph and 4.3g of morphine sulphate in MST morphine painkiller tablets.
Gary Godfrey admitted guilt
He told police they took it together and she also had diazepam.
He later awoke to find her unconscious. Officers arrested him after they found cannabis and diazepam in his car. Godfrey, who admitted supplying Ms Chamberlain with drugs, was jailed for three years and four months.
Mark Godfrey, from Bradford, was jailed for nine months for supplying drugs.