A woman who murdered her eight-week-old son and attempted to murder his two-year-old sister has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years, in North Ireland.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, accepted she stabbed the children on 27 July 2021 but had denied the charges.
She was convicted at Belfast Crown Court in March.
She was given an automatic life sentence and her minimum term has now been set.
After the woman stabbed the children, she made five phone calls, including one to the children’s father, telling him their daughter was “lying slowly bleeding”.
It was only after this call that she phoned 999, telling police: “I killed my kid for him.”
Both children were taken to the emergency department at the Royal Belfast Hospital for sick children and were treated as they lay side-by-side.
The young girl was successfully treated for a stab wound to her chest, but her baby brother was later pronounced dead.
Following her arrest, the defendant made the case that she stabbed her children and then turned the knife on herself as she wanted them all to die together.
BBC/Adebukola Aluko
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