Woman drowns 4-year-old daughter before laying her out on a coffee table in the garden and setting her on fire
A woman deliberately drowned her four-year-old daughter in the bath before placing her body on a coffee table in the garden and setting it on fire, a court has heard.
On 8 June, 38-year-old Carly Ann Harris allegedly killed Amelia Brooke Harris in Trealaw, Rhondda Cynon Taff. While the facts were not disputed, the jurors at Newport Crown Court had to consider the defendant's "profound" mental health issues, even as Harris denied charges of murder and manslaughter.
According to reports, jurors were told they must decide if Harris is guilty of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility or if she's not guilty by reason of insanity, BBC reports.
Harris, from Tonypandy in South West Wales, told detectives during an interrogation that she was "a fallen angel and had to prove her strength" and said that her daughter Amelia would have to be "cold-washed and burned," the court heard. Before taking Amelia's life, she allegedly told her: "You're going to see the angels. See you in heaven."