A successful healthcare consultant who killed her four-year-old son by stabbing him in the neck 11 times has been sentenced to a hospital order.

Akanksha Adivarekar had got into bed with her son, Agustya Hegishte, while he slept and stabbed him on the morning of June 10, a judge was told.

The 37-year-old, an online influencer, then placed Agustya’s body in the bath, where she cuddled him before drinking drain unblocker and attempting to take her own life, a court heard.

Anne Whyte KC told how Adivarekar had attended the St Mark’s community hospital in Maidenhead at 6pm, having travelled there from her home in Dunholme End, on a bus in her bloodstained dressing gown, the court heard.

Staff at the hospital noted she was bleeding from the wrist and seemed ‘zoned out’, the prosecutor said.

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