Woman guilty of murdering daughters

A woman who stabbed her two daughters to death as they slept in their beds has been convicted of murder.

Waitress Rekha Kumari-Baker, of Stretham, Cambridgeshire, admitted the manslaughter of Davina Baker, 16, and Jasmine Baker, 13, on the grounds of diminished responsibility, but had denied murder.

But a Cambridge Crown Court jury of seven women and five men convicted her of two counts of murder after deliberating for just 35 minutes.

Ms Kumari-Baker killed the girls with two kitchen knives as they slept in bedrooms at her home during the early hours of June 13, 2007.

Prosecutors said she carried out the murders to "wreak havoc" on ex-husband David Baker.

Her lawyers argued that she was suffering from an "abnormality of mind" which would make her guilty of manslaughter but not murder.

Sentencing was adjourned for today.