Friday, May 11, 2018

Samira Lupidi, Maternal Filicide As Revenge – 2015, England



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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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