Mum ‘doused girl, 3, in acid’
A DERANGED mother stabbed her three-year-old daughter in a frenzied attack, then doused her body in acid to “dissolve her away”, a court heard yesterday.
Police found “a truly shocking sight” when the mother of paranoid schizophrenic Iman Omar Yousef raised fears for the safety of her granddaughter, Alia Ahmed Jama.
The little girl’s body was on the bedroom floor of the house she shared with her mother, covered in bin liners, prosecutor James Burbidge QC told Birmingham Crown Court.
The skin had melted away, exposing bones after some kind of corrosive substance had been applied “in the belief, perhaps, that it would dissolve her away”.
She had suffered dozens of stab wounds, inflicted with a large kitchen knife.
Yousef, 25, was charged with her murder after the child’s body was found in February at her home in Erdington, Birmingham.
But the judge, Mr Justice Flaux, ruled she was unfit to plead.
Jurors were instructed to consider whether she was guilty of unlawfully killing her daughter.
The court heard that social workers had visited Yousef, a Somalian asylum seeker, the day before Alia’s body was found.
Yousef’s mother had reported her daughter was “acting strangely”.
The case continues.