Woman Strangled and Stabbed Her 2years Old Baby To Death

A mother who admitted strangling her toddler son and stabbing him to death has been detained indefinitely a psychiatric unit.

Angela Vane, 40, who suffers with paranoid schizophrenia, strangled her two-year-old son Shaun O'Neill with a neck tie before fatally stabbing him in the abdomen at the family home in Devon.

A court heard mother-of-three Vane told a passerby who found her standing on a bypass on the morning of the murder: 'I've just killed my baby.'

Vane told the man she was going to jump as she had just killed her son. She told him: 'I'm in a lot of trouble, I've just killed my baby.'
The passerby took Vane to the local police station, where she admitted the offence.
Police officers searching the family home discovered Shaun dead on his mother's bed. He was discovered with a neck tie bound tightly around his neck and a stab wound to his abdomen, the court heard.