Disturbing CCTV footage shows an "acutely psychotic" woman who cut off her mother's head carrying it round in a bag - before she took it out at an allotment and kissed it.
Paranoid schizophrenic Odessa Carey, 36, was too unwell to enter a plea to a murder charge but following a trial of the facts, a jury found her guilty of killing her mother.
She hit her mum on the head with a mallet until she died before decapitating her and removing her brain. Newcastle Crown Court was told that the headless body of her 73-year-old mother, also called Odessa, was found at the pensioner's home on her bed in Ashington, Northumberland, last April.
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