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A mother who decapitated her five-year-old son with a machete and ate his head has been declared criminally insane by a court in Egypt.
Accused Hanaa Mohamed Hassan, 29, was on trial for her son Youssef’s gruesome murder, but judges at the Criminal Court of Zagazig ruled she was not fit to plead.
Instead, in a verdict revealed on September 30, they said she had killed the boy ‘in a state of madness’ and should be detained at a secure psychiatric unit.
Hassan, the court heard, had been caught when Youssef’s horrified uncle found some of his body parts in a bucket at the family home in Faqous, northern Egypt.
Following her arrest, police said she confessed that she had eaten part of her son’s head because she ‘wanted him to stay with her forever’.
She had butchered his body in the bathroom before she stewed his head and other pieces of his flesh in boiling water on the stove and then ate them.
Before the ruling, prosecutors had argued that Hasan had killed her son because she feared she might lose custody of the boy to her ex-husband.
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