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Joshua Cohen, who killed his mother and sister, admits manslaughter

He fatally stabbed Leah and Hannah Cohen in their Golders Green home

January 20, 2020 12:33
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A man has admitted the manslaughter of his mother and sister in August 2017.

Joshua Cohen, who is confined to Broadmoor Hospital, had been deemed mentally unfit to plead to charges of murdering Leah, 64, and Hannah Cohen, 33, at the family’s home in Golders Green, in north-west London.

He instead faced a trial in 2018 which determined he had stabbed the pair, after which he received an indefinite hospital order. 

The 29-year-old was brought back to the Old Bailey last week after his mental health was deemed to have improved and pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility, which prosecutors accepted.

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