A mum stabbed her daughter in the back with a 12-inch kitchen knife while she was cooking a family meal - before fatally turning the blade on herself.

Aurica-Floarea Lazar had told a psychiatric nurse of her fear of being sectioned just hours before the tragedy unfolded in Ellson Close, Ashford.

Her daughter, Roxana Hartagan, suffered a punctured lung and desperately fended off further frenzied attacks before running outside and screaming: “She stabbed me.”

Ms Lazar was discovered by police on the kitchen floor in her daughter’s home, still holding the knife. The 55-year-old had sustained stab wounds to her neck and chest and was later confirmed dead at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford.

The shocking details emerged as an inquest was held into Ms Lazar’s death at Oakwood House in

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