A MOTHER who murdered her autistic eight-year-old son claims the boy proposed they both end their lives in a suicide pact.

The pharmaceutical company millionaire, who testified that she killed Jude Mirra with a lethal dose of prescription drugs, told a New York jury that the verbally non-communicative little boy had typed his desire to die on her BlackBerry, The New York Post reported.

The second-grade-age child eloquently wrote, “So let’s just get out while we can. We r going to die anyway let’s do it ourselves instead of them,” Ms Jordan testified under questioning from her defence lawyer.

Little Jude BlackBerry-messaged that plea to his mum on January 26, 2010, Jordan said, even though his teacher testified earlier in the trial that the boy couldn’t write or speak.

“We need to leave in a way we want to, not their way. Get the pills and try to do it,” she claimed he wrote.

Days later, on February 5, Jude’s body was discovered on a bed in the Peninsula Hotel in New York.

A lethargic Ms Jordan, 53, was lying on the floor nearby. She had taken a handful of pills that failed to kill her, she said.

“I wish you do it soon. I’m scare u r too chicken,” the boy allegedly taunted his mother in the January messages read in Manhattan Supreme Court on Thursday. “Jesus know u r sorry he forgave u along time ago it’s not murder … I think if you r doing it to save me from them its OK.”

She said that in another message, on January 15, 2010, Jude wrote: “I need to be dead I need a lot of drugs to die peacefully.”

The increasingly sceptical-looking jurors occasionally rolled their eyes as she recounted the purported exchanges between mother and son.

Jordan also said her ex-husband, Raymond Mirra, who had legally adopted Jude, threatened to kill her after she allegedly discovered he’d swindled her out of millions.

“One way or the other Ray was going to kill me or get rid of me somehow and I didn’t know what would happen to Jude,” she testified about her state of mind two days before she took her son’s life. “I felt numb, defeated, I felt like it was over, it was done. There was nothing I could do.”

In another outlandish twist, Ms Jordan claimed she had second thoughts hours after giving Jude the overdose, saying that she heard her by-then-comatose child breathing and tried to save his life.

“I had a big surge of adrenalin. My heart was pounding, I raced over to him,” she recounted. “I grabbed him off the bed and put him on the floor and I was crying and calling ‘Jude! Jude! Jude!’ and I attempted to do CPR on him.”

Prosecutors contend Ms Jordan straddled her son, holding him down as she forced a deadly drug cocktail down his throat with a syringe.

This story first appeared in The New York Post.