Daniel Cook left his mother Ellen Cook, 72, dying in a pool of her own blood after stabbing her 30 times after a family dinner at her home in Littlethorpe, near Leicester Ellen Cook (Image: Leicester Mercury/BPM Media)

A son brutally murdered his mother by stabbing her over 30 times in an attack that spilled out into the street. According to three psychologists, Cook, 39, was suffering from schizophrenia and believed his 72 year old mother, Ellen Cook, was a witch.

During his sentencing for manslaughter at Leicester Crown Court on Friday, December 12, the details of the horrific killing were revealed. At the time of the incident, Cook was living in Ashby, running an online business selling books and other items. However, he had expressed a desire to move back to his parents' ho

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