Mother kills partner and child in vampire delusion

A mother in London who killed her partner and their four-year-old daughter to “prevent the world being taken over by vampires” has been locked up indefinitely in a secure mental hospital.

Shelley Christopher, 36, was suffering from psychotic illness when she stabbed 42-year-old Richard Brown 29 times and daughter Sophia six times.

She also throttled and repeatedly stabbed a second child, who was lucky to survive the attack on February 19.