Woman who murdered baby son jailed for at least 20 years

A pistillate who murdered her eight-week aged lad and attempted to execution his two-year-old sister has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years.

The woman, who cannot beryllium named for ineligible reasons, accepted she stabbed the children connected 27 July 2021 but had denied the charges.

She was convicted astatine Belfast Crown Court successful March.

She was fixed an automatic beingness condemnation and her minimum word has present been set.

After the pistillate stabbed the children she made 5 telephone calls, including 1 to the children's father, telling him their girl was "lying dilatory bleeding".

It was lone aft this telephone that she phoned 999, telling police: "I killed my kid for him."

Both children were taken to the exigency section astatine the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children and were treated arsenic they laic side-by-side.

The young miss was successfully treated for a stab coiled to her thorax but her babe member was aboriginal pronounced dead.

Following her arrest, the suspect made the lawsuit that she stabbed her children and past turned the weapon connected herself arsenic she wanted them each to dice together.

During constabulary interview, the pistillate elaborate however she had lifted a weapon to stab her babe but past stopped aft helium looked astatine her and smiled.

She said she kissed some children, told them they "would ever beryllium successful her heart", past stabbed them both.

On Friday, the tribunal was told that a objective psychologist's study recovered the small miss had been observed "re-enacting" the incidental done play some successful her foster placement and astatine nursery - wherever she was seen stabbing a artifact doll with play scissors.

The tribunal was told she had suffered "significant terror" and "the astir superior breach of spot from the idiosyncratic who should person cared for her the most".

The miss has been near feeling "unsafe, confused, sad, stressed, terrified and anxious" - and that what she went done volition person "a lifelong effect", the tribunal heard.