A mother gave a chilling six-word statement to police just hours after she killed her six-year-old son, who had cancer.
Karolina Zurawska was suffering from a “profound” mental illness, likely to be paranoid schizophrenia, and was hearing “demonic voices” when she killed young Alexander, Swansea Crown Court heard today. Originally from Poland, the 42-year-old had been living in a two-bedroom bungalow on the Gendros estate in Swansea with her son at the time of the incident in August 2024.
The court was told that Zurawska had previously been described as the “best mother” to her son, who was recovering from a brain tumour which had left him partially sighted and reliant on a cane to walk.
Paramedics arrived at the scene shortly after 8pm and administered advanced life support, but the boy was pronounced dead at 9.45pm.
After Zurawska was arrested, she told PC Luke Tamplin and PC Kane Symonds of South Wales Police that she had now realised what she had done, saying: “I’ve killed my kid with cancer. He almost got through it. I can’t believe it.”