Miss Wales contestant, 26, was stabbed in the neck by her own mother while she slept in row over sending her back to her native Sri Lanka
- Kumari Mahendran, 26, was stabbed by her mother Chitrani as she slept
- Kumari, who competed in Miss Wales 2013, had organised for her mother to be flown to her native Sri Lanka because of her ill health before attack
- Chitrani, 74, chased her daughter from room to room before she fled
- Jury said she had committed the crime and will be sentenced in September
A beauty queen and Miss Wales contestant was stabbed in the neck by her own mother while she was sleeping.
Kumari
Mahendran, 26, woke in horror when she felt a 'really hard punch' to
her neck and her mother standing over her brandishing a steak knife.
She shouted out 'Mum, you've stabbed me' before she escaped through the front door.
A
court heard how Chitrani Mahendran, 74, chased her daughter from room
to room with the blade before she fled onto the street in her
leopard-print nightwear.
Kumari,
who competed in Miss Wales 2013, had organised for her mother to be
flown from Britain to her native Sri Lanka because of her ill health in
the days before the attack.
Kumari Mahendran, 26, was stabbed in the neck by her mother Chitrani Mahendran, 74, (pictured together)
Kumari, who
competed in Miss Wales 2013, had organised for her mother to be flown
from Britain to her native Sri Lanka because of her ill health
Recalling
the ordeal the beauty queen told Cardiff Crown Court how she was woken
twice by her mother stroking her hair as she lay in bed - but fell back
asleep both times after she was told: 'Go to sleep, go to sleep.'
But the next time she woke it was because she felt a sharp blow to her neck.
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She said: 'It felt like a really hard punch to my neck. I woke up and my mum was standing over me with a steak knife.
'I
was really shocked and confused. I was thinking: "Has she stabbed
me?" I touched my neck and felt blood coming out and felt really faint.
'I said to her "Mum you've just stabbed me'".
Kumari managed to break free from her mother and escaped onto the street following the attack
Kumari, who studied mathematics at Cardiff University, was then chased by her mother who was still wielding the steak knife.
The 26-year-old said she could not unlock her phone to call an ambulance as her hands were soaked in blood.
She explained: 'I felt very faint and scared. I tried to get out of the house but couldn't find my keys.
'She confronted me and I said I needed an ambulance, but she said first we needed to discuss what to say to the police.'
Kumari
wrestled with her mother in the living room and managed to grab the
knife from her by clutching onto the jagged blade, before pushing her
into the TV and escaping through the front door.
Neighbour
Elin Cooper, 18, was walking back home from morning lessons at nearby
Ysgol Glantaf high school in Cardiff when she heard Kumari screaming
down the street.
She told the court: 'Kumari was shouting "Please help me, my mother has just stabbed me in the neck."
'She had blood all over her neck, chest and arms and on her leopard-style onesie.
'The mother was standing at the top of the road just looking at us.'
Another neighbour Nia Davies, 43, took the blood-drenched girl inside her home while they waited for an ambulance to arrive.
Kumari, who studied mathematics at Cardiff University, was chased by her mother who had the knife
Paramedics
drove her to University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, where doctors
treated a 1cm cut to her neck following the attack in January.
The
court heard Mrs Mahendran, from Llandaff, Cardiff, would not appear in
court as she is currently being treated by psychiatrists at Calverton
Hospital, Nottingham.
Prosecutor
Andrew Jones said: 'Mrs Mahendran's mental condition has been accepted
by several psychiatrists as being such she is not fit to stand trial.
'Her treatment will depend on whether she committed the act or not.'
He
said the jury's role would be not to decide whether she is guilty of
unlawful wounding but whether she was responsible for the act she is
charged with.
The jury found she had committed the crime and sentencing was adjourned until September.
In
a victim impact statement her daughter said: 'I do miss my mum. I never
wanted her to go to prison, just for her to get help.'
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