A PARANOID schizophrenic who stabbed her mum to death was killed by a blood clot while being treated in a psychiatric unit.

Kauthar Silvera was sectioned under the Mental Health Act after she admitted knifing her mother Vittoria Baker, 52, at her Oxford flat two years ago.

But the 31-year-old collapsed at a Birmingham hospital in June, when a blood clot from her leg entered her lung.

An inquest yesterday heard the former sales rep was found in her room at the Ardenleigh Hospital in Erdington – just minutes after staff had seen her fit and well.

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Worker Vivian Darby said in a statement read to Birmingham Coroner’s Court: “I looked through the observation panel and saw her lying on the bedroom floor.

“I called her name but got no response.

“I realised something was wrong and pulled my alarm to indicate a medical emergency.”

Silvera was later pronounced dead at Heartlands Hospital.

Assistant coroner Elisabeth Bussey-Jones recorded a conclusion of natural death.

She said: “We heard evidence of life saving techniques that were used, including CPR and the use of a defibrillator.

“I asked witnesses if there was anything further that could have been done. The answer was resoundingly, no.”

Kauthur, who studied psychology at university, moved from Birmingham to Oxford to live with her mother in March 2012.

She stabbed Mrs Baker in her Friars Wharf flat in August 2012 – just two days after being freed from an earlier spell in Littlemore mental health hospital.

The killer admitted the manslaughter of her mother on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

Her barrister Paul Keleher told Oxford Crown Court at the time that Silvera was known to be a “danger to herself and possibly to her mother”.

And speaking after her detention in August last year, her brother Mohammed Silvera said that both women had been “let down” by social services and mental health officials.

After the case, Oxford Health NHS Trust, which runs Littlemore, said it carried out an internal investigation which concluded the killing was not predictable. But it said it had come up with recommendations and was implementing them.

 

 

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