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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray and agencies

Woman who killed sleeping daughter in West Midlands given hospital order

Shay Kang
Shay Kang told school staff that at home she and her mother ‘did nothing and went nowhere’. Photograph: family handout/PA

A woman who stabbed her sleeping daughter 11 times in the chest because she believed they were being targeted by “tech and lasers” has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order.

Jaskirat Kaur, 33, called 999 hours after she had killed 10-year-old Shay Kang with a Swiss army knife at their home in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, in March.

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