A religious mother fasted her three-year-old son to death during the Covid-19 lockdown, in the belief it would save the nation from the deadly virus, a court has heard.
Olabisi Abubakar, 42, from Cardiff, was found thin and severely dehydrated next to the body of her son Taiwo at their flat in Cathays, near the city centre, in June 2020.
The former hairdresser, who came to the UK from Nigeria as an asylum seeker in 2011, had been suffering with paranoid delusions that were said to have been partly brought on by fears over the pandemic.
