For
similar cases, see: Maternal Filicide :Spousal Revenge Motive : Facts vs.Feminism
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Twenty-four
year old Samira Lupidi, living in Mint Street, Bradford, West Yorkshire,
England, was staying at a women’s refuge in Heckmondwike when she took a knife
and plunged it nine times into the breasts of eacher of her sleeping daughters:
Evelyn Lupidi, 3, and Jasmine Weaver, 17 months.
On
November 17 Farzana Kauser, a support worker went to the flat in the refuge.
Samira Lupidi opened the door and ran out the room. She was on the telephone
speaking in English and Italian. A social worker said she heard her saying:
‘It’s his fault. Now he has a reason to kill me. If I can’t have them then he
can’t have them,’ and ‘I hurt them, I killed them.’ Her hands were covered in
blood.
Samira
entered the Heckmondwike refuge with the two children claiming her boyfriend,
Carl Weaver (31), father of Jasmine (17 mo.), was going to kill the woman.
The
child-killing mom admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished
responsibility but denied that she committed murder. She was nevertheless
guilty on May 17, 2016, of two murders by a jury composed of six men and six
women. They deliberated the verdict for a mere 90 minutes. She was sentenced
to life in prison, with a minimum of 24 years served by Mr Justice Edis.
The
judge said: “I believe you killed these children in a spasm of violence
triggered by a weekend of violent arguments.”
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