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Photo: Woman Killed Her Mother, Says She "Just Decided To Take Her Life by Lindalilian: 4:15pm On Jul 22, 2017 |
A 55-year-old woman who killed her
mother by giving her an overdose of drugs
and smothering her with a pillow has been
found guilty of causing her death.
Shirley D'Silva of Morland Road, Croydon
pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on Monday,
17 July to manslaughter on the grounds of
diminished responsibility. She will be
sentenced at the same court on Tuesday,
18 July.
On 25 October 2016 at about 16:10hrs, D?
Silva dialled 999 and told the operator that
she had just killed her 77-year-old mother
Martha Pereira at the home they shared.
When the operator asked what happened,
she replied:
"Erm, nothing happened. I just decided to
take her life."
When the operator asked D?Silva "what
made you do this today?" she replied:
''It's the world we live around. We've been
suffering too long. Nobody's doing
nothing about it. Somebody has to come
forward and do something about it."
D?Silva told the operator her mother had
been unwell for a long time. Later on in the
call when asked by the operator "did you
do it because you don't think you were
getting the help you needed?" she replied:
"No, no.
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It's not, it's not that. It's about the world,
the war around the world going on.'
D?Silva remained on the phone until
officers arrived at the scene.
She remained calm at first and when asked
what happened, D?Silva told officers:
"I have just killed my mother. I have given
her an overdose of insulin and I have
suffocated her with a pillow."
Officers and paramedics from the London
Ambulance Service carried out CPR on Mrs
Pereira but she was pronounced dead a
short time later at a south London hospital.
A post-mortem examination showed the
cause of death was consistent with an
insulin overdose and smothering.
D?Silva was arrested on suspicion of
murder at 16:18hrs on 25 October. She
was charged on 27 October. When
interviewed by officers D?Silva told them a
man had told her to kill her mother, and he
was now telling her to kill her husband
and son.
Detective Sergeant Brendan Ward, the
investigating officer from the Met?s
Homicide and Major Crime Command, said:
"This is a very sad case and our thoughts
and sympathies are with the family at this
difficult time." www.bulletin.com.ng/2017/07/photo-woman-convicted-of-killing-her-77.html |
Re: Photo: Woman Killed Her Mother, Says She "Just Decided To Take Her Life by serverconnect(m): 4:34pm On Jul 22, 2017 |
Too bad. |
Re: Photo: Woman Killed Her Mother, Says She "Just Decided To Take Her Life by Sleyanya1(m): 4:38pm On Jul 22, 2017 |
Life is Mysterious. R.I.P to the Dead |
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