A Slovakian National, Martina Madarova, 41, has been jailed for five years after she admitted k!lling her five-year-old daughter, Alijah Thomas, at their family home in Ealing, West London.
It is reported that Madarova was s*ffering depr#ss!on when she k!lled her daughter in September, 2021. The suspect denied m#rder but admitted mansl#ughter which was accepted by the prosecution during a court hearing.
According to Madarova, her daughter’s last words were, “Mummy, don’t k!ll me” and her response was “I don’t want to k!ll you, I just want to help you, no baby you’re safe.”
Metro UK reports that a post-mortem examination found Alijah d!ed from compr#ssio of the neck. Her mother said her plan had been to k!ll her daughter and then end it all. When asked by a psychiatrist for her version of events, she said: “I know I took Ali from the bedroom to the living room. I put cartoons on for her. She was finding me crying. I was with her for a while. It was very embarrassing, my daughter trying to help me. That’s when I felt like a failure. Emotional, physical and spiritual mess. Nothing was right.
What I have done is not normal, I’m going to be all over the news, the voices in my head told me to do it now – I deserve the de#th sentence. It’s rare when a mother s#ffocates her own child, I’m a m#rderer at the end of the day.”
Meanwhile, in a statement by the deceased’s father, David Thomas, he said: “I am blessed that I have other children but the fact that I have lost one is devastating. Martina is not a bad person, she was the best mum. I still believe that she was not well and would not have intentionally done anything to h#rm our daughter.” ?: Metropolitan Police UK/ GettyImages
