Mum 'stabbed daughters aged 3 and 17 months to death and said "if I can't have them, he can't either"'

A MUM who stabbed her two young daughters to death said: "If I can't have them, he can't have them either", after killing them, a jury has heard.

Samira Lupidi sobbed in the dock as she went on trial accused of murdering 17-month-old Jasmine Weaver and three-year-old Evelyn Lupidi at a women's refuge.

At one point the 24-year-old Italian was so upset she had to leave the courtroom as prosecutors outlined how the girls were found in their beds, each with nine stab wounds to the chest.

Evelyn and Jasmine were both found with nine stab wounds near a bloodied knife at a women's refuge

The court heard Lupidi met Mr Weaver via the internet when he was visiting his grandma in Italy.

After giving birth to Evelyn in 2012 they moved to Yorkshire where Jasmine was born in 2014.

Lupidi was to tell police that Mr Weaver was psychologically and financially controlling. He deprived her of money and he restricted her contact with family in Italy.

On 16 November, last year, whilst Mr Weaver was at work Lupidi called the police to their home in Church Lane, Heckmondwike, and alleged he had hit her on the arm and leg the previous evening.

Peter Moulson, QC, told the jury Lupidi believed Mr Weaver wanted rid of her after the baptism of the girls on the coming weekend.

Police arranged her removal to a ‘safe house’ in Bradford and transported her and the girls to that secret location.

The next morning a project worker knocked on her flat door and Lupidi answered whilst shouting into her mobile telephone ‘They won’t believe that I killed them’ and fled outside, her hands smeared in blood.

She repeated:”I killed then, I hurt them, I killed the children.”

Asked when she’d killed them she replied:”Just now.”

Mr Weaver had made contact with her and told her he intended to take the children away from her.

Lupidi told refuge staff:”It’s his fault. Now he has a reason to kill me. If I can’t have them he can’t have them either.”

During her police interview Lupidi gave ‘no comment’.

Lupidi admits killing her daughters but denies murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility Facebook

Prosecutors earlier rejected 24-year-old Lupidi's guilty plea to manslaughter FACE BOOK

The prosecutor said a 14in kitchen knife with a 10in blade was found on one of the children's beds.

He said that after Lupidi was arrested, she said: "I know what I have done. My life is nothing now."

Mr Mouslon explained to the jury that Lupidi admits killing the children and has pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

He said the defendant denies two counts of murder, and much of the case will revolve around her mental state at the time of the killings.

Wearing black trousers, a white shirt and a grey cardigan, and with her long dark hair tied back, Lupidi sat in the dock with two security guards and an interpreter, clearly upset for the entirety of the prosecution opening statement.

Source UK Sun