A mother who stabbed her two young sons to death has told how she had believed she was being pursued by the devil and how voices told her she must kill them.
Jael Mullings killed Romario Mullings-Sewell, two, and his three-month-old brother Delayno at their home in Kilimington Drive, Cheetham Hill, Manchester in 2008.
She wiped tears from her eyes yesterday as she spoke via a video link from a secure hospital during an inquest into the children's deaths at Manchester Crown Court.
Mullings told the court: 'At the time Romario was born, I started suffering from paranoia. When Delayno was born I started to turn really psychotic. I couldn’t cope. I was getting no support from the children’s father.
'From there it built up and became worse. I was hearing lots of different voices. They were telling me to kill the children.
They were saying all these different things. I can’t remember exactly what they said. They were telling me to kill the children,' she told the court.'
It was the first time she has spoken since she was sectioned indefinitely in 2009 after killing her children on November 12 2008.
Mullings, then 21, had denied murder and pleaded manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
