‘Yes it was my knife, it wasn’t me, it was the power’

A mother told gardaí “Yes it was my knife, yes it was my hand, it was not me, it was the power” after she was charged with the murder of her three-year-old son Omar Omran in Dublin.

Maha Al-Adheem, 42, made the reply to gardaí yesterday after she was charged with the murder of the toddler who was found stabbed to death in his Crumlin home on Monday evening.

Ms Al-Adheem, who is a doctor, was remanded in custody by Dublin District Court to appear again next week.