Shay Kang's paranoid schizophrenic mother sentenced for stabbing 10-year-old to death at home

Paranoid schizophrenic Jaskirat Kaur, 33, stabbed her fun-loving child Shay Kang through the heart and liver and then left her lying in her bed for 12 hours before phoning the police.

Kaur told police she killed her to stop her being taken away and adopted. She later admitted manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility at Wolverhampton Crown Court.

Brickhouse Primary School continually raised concerns about Shay's wellbeing in the year running up to her death due to her mother keeping her from attending school.

Within seven months Shay went from a popular pupil who enjoyed her school to being unable to walk and talk properly due to her being kept at her Robin Close home by her mother out of an irrational fear she would be snatched.

West Midlands Police and Sandwell Council social workers visited the home and reported on Kaur's mental health. She believed her home was being targeted by the military through technology. Tragically Shay never reached the threshold for social services to remove her for her own safety from her mother's care.

Police officers who conducted 'safe and well' assessments at the home urged Kaur to go to her GP about her state of mind, but she never heeded their advice. A neighbour and fellow parent was troubled by her behaviour towards her daughter. She showed Brickhouse Primary School's headmaster text messages she had received claiming her phone was hacked by the military.

Prosecutor Sally Howes KC said: "On Monday, March 4, this year the defendant made an emergency phone call to the police [and said] 'my kid's dead' and then hung up. Police attended the address and found Shay in her bedroom, she had died of multiple stab wounds to the chest.

"She told police officers she loved Shay and killed her to stop her being taken away from her by authorities or her father's family. She told police she 'had no regrets of killing her and did it to save her'.