FARINGDON MOTHER ORDERED TO PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL AFTER KILLING HER SON
A mother who stabbed her five-year-old son to death is to be held in a psychiatric unit, a judge has ordered.Police discovered Emma Jackson covered in blood and the body of her son, Tyler Warmington, at her home in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, on 14 March last year.Jackson, 41, denied murder but admitted manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility."Your life sentence is living with the knowledge that you killed your own son," Judge Ian Pringle QC told her.Oxford Crown Court heard that Jackson was found by police with self-inflicted injuries to her wrists following the killing.She told police her son was sleeping upstairs.They found his body there with a kitchen knife and 13 stab wounds.Jackson said she had no memory of what had happened.