The 35-year-old woman was hearing voices telling her that her four-year-old, two-year-old and 10-week-old children would be taken from her and tortured when she stabbed them at their house in Huddersfield , West Yorkshire . Sheffield Crown Court heard the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had become convinced she needed to 'save the children and protect them by taking them to heaven with her'.
The court heard by the time her third child was born her 'depressive and psychotic symptoms' increased, she was struggling to cope with her low mood and the voices in her head were telling her she was 'better off dead and should take her children with her'. A week before stabbing herself and her children, the woman was seen by medical staff and denied having any suicidal thoughts, hallucinations or delusions.