A beauty queen has described how she was knifed in the neck by her own mother as she peacefully slept in her bed.
Miss Wales contestant Kumari Mahendran, 26, woke in horror as her mother attacked her with a kitchen knife.
Chitrani Mahendran, 74, chased her daughter from room to room with the blade before her daughter fled onto the street in her nightwear, a court heard.
Kumari, who competed in Miss Wales 2013, had organised for her mother to be flown from Britain to her native Sri Lanka due to months of ill health days before the attack.
She told Cardiff Crown Court how she was woken twice by her mum brushing her hair as she lay in bed – but fell back asleep both times after she was told: ‘Go to sleep, go to sleep.’ But the next time she woke it was because she felt a blow to her neck.
Kumari, who studied mathematics at Cardiff University, was then chased by her mum who was still brandishing the blade.
Mrs Mahendran, from Llandaff, Cardiff, will not appear in court as she is currently being treated by psychiatrists at Calverton Hospital, Nottingham.
