Loved ones of a woman on trial accused of trying to kill her severely disabled daughter have spoken of their concerns for her mental health.

Carla Lovejoy's partner Bernard Broadley and son-in-law Grant Roberts described the 53-year-old as being "paranoid, vacant, anxious and not her normal self" in the build-up to when she stabbed Isabella Lovejoy multiple times on March 20 this year.

The then 28-year-old suffered 14 knife wounds to her abdomen and two to her chest during the attack at the home she shared with her mother in St Peter's, Broadstairs.

If it had not been for the expertise of medics at the scene and then London's King's College Hospital, she would have died, jurors at Canterbury Crown Court have been told.

But at Lovejoy's trial where she faces charges of attempted murder

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