Transcripts of police interviews with a mother accused of murdering her baby are heard in court.
BBC Newsline reporterThe mother is charged with murdering her eight-week-old son and attempting to murder his two-year-old sister in July 2021.On Thursday, the jury at her trial was read transcripts from the audio recordings of her police interviews that took place after the stabbings.In those recordings, the woman told police what had happened in the moments leading up to the incident.
The woman said she then put the knife down and had a cigarette, and a few minutes later she lifted the knife again and went to her baby.She said she then stabbed the baby "close to the heart". She said she would sleep on a bed in the living room with her children, while her partner slept in the bedroom upstairs.In the transcript, read to court, the woman said: "She kissed her brother, I hugged her and told her that I loved her."Then she tried to kill herself but after hearing her daughter call, "mum", she could not do it, she told police."I tried to resuscitate [the baby] but he didn't come back."I feel like a monster.
"He brought us into this situation. He made a joke out of us and I can't take it any more," she said."But he didn't care. He only cared about where his woman was."
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