Davina and Jasmine Kumari-Baker were
murdered by their mother who stabbed them to death at their home in
Stretham,
Cambridgeshire,
England, while they slept on 13 June 2007.
Rekha Kumari-Baker was sentenced to
life imprisonment
Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted people are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives or indefinitely until pardoned, paroled, or otherwise commuted to a fixed term. Crimes for ...
with a minimum tariff of 33 years.
In 2010 the
BBC stated that the punishment was "one of the longest jail terms given to a woman in the UK in modern times."
The older daughter Davina, aged 16, was killed first, with Kumari-Baker stabbing her 39 times. The younger daughter Jasmine, aged 13, was found dead in her bed stabbed 29 times.
The prosecutor stated that Rekha Kumari-Baker killed the girls as a form of revenge against her ex-husband and father of the girls, David Baker.
The murderer had purchased kitchen knives, the murder weapons, from
ASDA on 11 June.
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Council review
Cambridgeshire County Council conducted a review into the murders and found they could not have been prevented and listed recommendations for social workers in relation to the review.[
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See also
* Louise Porton – fellow British female double killer who murdered her two daughters in 2018
Cases of filicide attributed to revenge against an ex-spouse:
* John Battaglia
* Elaine Campione
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Background and ...
* Amy Hebert
Amy T. Hebert ( ''née'' Talbot) is a woman from Mathews, Louisiana, United States, who was convicted of murdering her two children in August 2007 in an act of revenge against her ex-husband; she also killed the family dog. Hebert was sentenced ...
* Charles Mihayo
Charles Amon Mihayo is a Tanzanian man, permanently residing in Australia, who killed his two daughters in Melbourne on 20 April 2014.
Background
Mihayo was born in Tanzania.
He met a woman in China, moved to Australia, and married her. He bec ...
* Aaron Schaffhausen
References
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2007 murders in the United Kingdom
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2000s in Cambridgeshire
Deaths by person in England
Deaths by stabbing in England
Female murder victims
Filicides in England
History of Cambridgeshire
Incidents of violence against girls
June 2007 events in the United Kingdom
Murder in Cambridgeshire
Sisters
Child murder in England
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