Mentally ill mum slit baby’s throat ‘to save the world’

A mentally ill mother-of-three killed her baby by slitting his throat because she believed she had to ‘sacrifice’ her son to save the world, a court heard. Mariam Benzain, 32, almost decapitated five-month-old Elias Biad after her husband left the family home in Preston Road, Harrow, northwest London, on 22 July 2020. At around 9.30am she called Abdelilah Biad Elahmar, who she married in 2018, telling him she had ‘slaughtered’ the infant because she had been told to by Allah….