Major update after mum stabs son, 2, and dumps body on Lidl checkout in front of horrified customers

A mother who stabbed her two-year-old son to death and dumped his body on a Lidl checkout counter has been jailed for 20 years.

Former porn star Katalin Erzsebet Bradacs, 44, was arrested after she break into the supermarket in the Citta della Pieve, Italyleft the child’s body on the carousel until said he had been attacked by a stranger.

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But court heard that two-year-old Alex died of nine stab wounds to the chest and neck in October 2021 in an act of barbaric revenge against his father.

When Bradacs was captured by police They found a bloody knife in her bag.

Judge at Court of Assizes of Perugia jailed Bradacs on Wednesday, May 24.

Prosecutor Manuela Comodi asked for a 30-year prison sentence, saying Bradacs – a Hungarian citizen – had “acted consciously and with premeditated”.

The judges are said to have taken into account that she was “partially mentally handicapped”.

The court heard that a week before Bradacs was killed by an illness, it was found that the judges in Hungary gave custody of Alex to his father, her estranged husband, Norbert Juhasz.

She ran away with her son Italy where she killed the child, pretending that a stranger had attacked him, the court was told.

The father alerted authorities at the time after receiving a horrifying photo of his dying son from Bradacs, shortly before she brought the boy’s body into the supermarket.

Bradacs eventually confessed during pre-trial detention that she killed her son.

The boy’s heartbroken father told the court his wife “didn’t want that child” and was a heartless mother.

He said she once “smashed my son’s kitten against the wall”.

During the trial, Judge Carla Giangamboni ordered Bradacs out of the courtroom for repeatedly interrupting her ex-husband’s evidence.