Teenager 'cut through his mother's spinal cord so she could not move and stabbed her 94 times in brutal attack'

A 16-year-old boy murdered his mother by stabbing her 94 times, immobilising her early on in the attack by severing her spinal cord, a court heard today. The teenager, who admits having 'an interest in knives', then claimed Leah Whittle had been killed at their home in Weymouth, Dorset, by a gang of 'mystery men from Yorkshire'. He inflicted knife wounds across her head, back and front in the two bedroom flat, stabbing her with at least one knife in an attack so sudden she had 'little chance' to defend herself, jurors were told. The teenager then fled the flat in the early hours, climbing out of his first floor bedroom window and down a drainpipe. He went to visit friends, feeding them an elaborate cover story that he had seen a gang of 'mystery men' from the north of England kill his mother, Winchester Crown Court heard. Divorced mother-of-three Ms Whittle, 42, was found slumped against the hallway wall.

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