Doctor who stabbed her son fulfils criteria for verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity, psychiatrists tell trial

Maha Al Adheem (43) has admitted stabbing her son and told gardaí that “a power” had made her go to a drawer and remove a knife.

Two psychiatrists have told a trial that a doctor accused of murdering her three-year-old autistic son fulfils the criteria for a special verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.

Both witnesses were in agreement that Maha Al Adheem was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia in July 2017.