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See CCTV footage of Odessa Carey carrying her mum's severed head around in a bag

A woman who killed her mum and cut off her head was caught on CCTV carrying it around in a bag after the gruesome attack.

After smashing her 73-year-old mum's head with a mallet until she was dead, Odessa Carey, who has paranoid schizophrenia, decapitated her and removed the brain.

Odessa Carey snr's body was found on her bed at her home in North Seaton, near Ashington , last April.

Two days later her head was found in a kitchen cupboard of a home in Guide Post, Northumberland , where Carey had been staying.

When police trawled through CCTV, they saw Carey, 36, had been carrying the head around.

At one point, she took it the an allotment shed in Ashington where a family friend lives and took it out and kissed it, before carefully putting it back in the bag.

Carey was not fit to stand trial given her mental health problems but jurors found she did the act of killing her mum, following a trial of the facts.

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