Witchfinders told to get psychiatric help

Wimbledon

A pensioner and her son who repeatedly chanted ‘death by fire’ at a neighbour they believed was a witch will receive hospital treatment for their shared delusions. Leonora Joseph, 76, and Mark Joseph, 56, tormented upstairs neighbour Samantha Ginsberg after they convinced themselves their landlord had rented the flat as part of a plot to kill them. The devout mother and son duo harassed Ms Ginsberg over a four month period in 2018 by chanting and blasting American religious TV…

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