A schizophrenic mother who stabbed her daughter 11 times in the chest while she slept has been ordered indefinitely hospitalized.
Jaskirat Kaur, 33, believed she was being attacked by “lasers and technology” when she killed 10-year-old Shay Kang with a Swiss army knife earlier this year.
The Year 5 pupil had been playing with other children outside her home in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, just hours before she was murdered on March 4.
Kaur called 999 after stabbing her daughter in the chest and told West Midlands Police: “My daughter is dead.”
She pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility in August and was today sentenced to an indefinite hospitalization order at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
Jaskirat Kaur, 33, believed she was being attacked by “lasers and technology” when she killed 10-year-old Shay Kang with a Swiss Army knife earlier this year (pictured together).
Shay Kang was found dead at a house in Rowley Regis, in the West Midlands, on March 4.
Jaskirat Kaur pictured with her daughter Shay Kang. The court accepted Kaur’s manslaughter plea in August
When police arrived at her home after the 999 call, the mother-of-one told them she had had “projections going in and out” of her house, with “technology and lasers and stuff”, adding: “It was me ( that one killed her) because she didn’t want him to take over her.’
Those in the public gallery sobbed as graphic details of the moment Kaur killed her daughter were read in court.
He admitted that he had wanted to kill his daughter for the past seven months and told detectives during the interview: “They can’t adopt her, they can’t take her.” It won’t make sense, but it does to me.
‘I was worried about Shay growing up. I knew there had to be an end date.
‘I would kill her again. I wanted her to die, I don’t regret it.’
Prosecutor Sally Howes KC told the court that concerns had been raised about Shay’s welfare after he did not attend Brickhouse Primary School for nine months between December 2022 and September 2023.
Kaur, also known as Jasmine Kang, called police on January 11 last year and asked if she could speak to officers on a secure line and asked them to be discreet when they arrived at her home.
During the time between the call and the police arriving at her home, Brickhouse Elementary School also called the police requesting a check on Shay, as she had not attended.
When officers arrived at her home, the curtains were drawn, and they noted that Kaur appeared to be suffering from paranoia, although Shay was “happy and willing to chat.”
Kaur (pictured) called 999 after stabbing her daughter in the chest and told West Midlands Police: ‘My daughter is dead.’
Shay was a fifth grader at Brickhouse Elementary School, but concerns were raised about her attendance.
A photograph of Shay holding a certificate was placed among the floral and tender tributes outside her home in Rowley Regis.
Shay had been seen playing with children in the cul-de-sac just hours before police were called to the property.
After a second call from her primary school on January 19 last year, the police came again and Kaur said she was not willing to talk to them without a lawyer.
She then told them that she would not send her daughter to school because “a male was going to take her from there.”
Officers suggested Kaur speak to her GP about her paranoia and said Shay seemed happy and in good health and did not believe she was in immediate danger.
Her school made a third call to the police on September 20 last year and when police arrived at Kaur’s home, they noticed that Shay seemed nervous, was difficult to understand and gave monosyllabic responses.
When police showed the school’s pastoral team body camera footage of the interaction the next day, Howes said they were “shocked” by Shay’s regression since she stopped attending school.
Social workers then intervened when police deemed her a “needy child” and an assessment was carried out on September 27 last year.
The social worker noted that the house was dark and Shay was not speaking, but she appeared “relatively healthy but pale” despite having an “unsteady gait” and her arm movements were “strained and robotic,” while she was said to Kaur was paranoid and anxious. .
A plan for children in need was put in place in November last year as social services felt Kaur was meeting her daughter’s basic needs and had begun to engage with them again, but said it was “not particularly coherent and demonstrated examples of paranoia” while Shay’s speech had returned to stammering.
After returning to school in January of this year, Shay’s speech improved and she told teachers that she had had no one to talk to while she was at home, saying that she and her mother spent time in separate rooms and who “did nothing and went nowhere.” .
Kaur (pictured) admitted manslaughter at Wolverhampton Crown Court in August
Pictured: Police cordon off around the Robin Close sign after the discovery of the 10-year-old boy’s body.
Kaur, 33, also known as Jasmine Kang, was sentenced on Friday.
The young woman told her teachers that she spent her time daydreaming or playing with her Nintendo DS and that there was no physical affection between mother and daughter.
Two forensic psychiatrists determined that Kaur suffered from paranoid schizophrenia when she carried out the fatal attack on her daughter.
Dr John Croft said Kaur was suffering from serious mental illness, had been experiencing delusions and felt that technology was attacking her and that her daughter would be taken away from her.
She said she believed she had killed her daughter to “protect her from suffering and harm.”
Wearing a black jumper, Kaur sat with her hands clasped in front of her and surrounded by dock officers and nurses and looked ahead as Carla Newby, pastoral officer at Brickhouse Primary School, read a moving tribute to Shay on her behalf and her husband. , the school’s principal, Paul Newby.
Through tears, Mrs Newby said: ‘Shay was always a bright, happy, fun-loving little girl who was much loved by everyone. His smile could light up the darkest days.
‘This is the most horrible and devastating situation we have ever had to face.
‘We spent time with Shay while he was resting at the funeral home. We placed a pink blanket and a teddy bear on his coffin for him to snuggle.
‘It was an honor for both of us to have been chosen to organize his funeral and give him the farewell he deserved. May Shay find some peace now.
Katherine Goddard KC, defending, said Kaur would be “forever grateful” to Mr and Mrs Newby and the school community for the love shown to her and Shay.
She said: “This is not a short-term mental condition, it is deep-seated and long-term, with no guarantee of future improvement.” In short, you will not recover quickly from this condition and there will still be a real risk of relapse.
‘She has received no visits except from her legal team, she has received no letters and no one has attempted to contact her in any way.
“This represents the bleak sadness of the future facing this defendant.”
Judge Michael Chambers KC accepted a recommendation that Kaur, a patient at Chadwick Lodge secure hospital in Milton Keynes, should be given an indefinite hospital order to protect the public from serious harm.
He said: ‘This is a truly terrible and tragic loss of life. Every child turns to their mother for love and protection and this was a serious violation of that trust.
‘The enormity of what you have done is difficult to comprehend. What he has done has impacted many lives and the community has rightly been shocked.
‘Shay had her whole life ahead of her. She seemed like a happy and content girl. That was the appearance she gave to the world, but unfortunately the reality of life at home was very different.
‘The conditions in which he lived and the context in which he died were a direct result of his serious mental illness. This led them both to live a socially isolated existence.
