UK: Mother stabbed daughters in their sleep after shopping trip, court told

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'A mother stabbed her two teenage daughters to death in their beds in an attempt to destroy her former husband’s life, a court was told yesterday.

Rekha Kumari-Baker, 41, carried out a frenzied attack on Davina Baker, 16, and Jasmine Baker, 13, after “softening them up” on a shopping trip, Cambridge Crown Court heard.

There had been contention between Ms Kumari-Baker, 41, and her former husband David Baker, 44, about the care and custody of the girls, John Farmer for the prosecution, said.

The sisters were attacked in their mother’s home in Stretham, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, in the early hours of June 13, 2007. She stabbed Davina 39 times and launched a similar assault on Jasmine, the court was told.'