Former porn Katalin Erzsebet Bradacs, 44, burst into the supermarket in the comune of Citta della Pieve, Perugia province, Italy, leaving toddler Alex’s corpse on the till’s conveyer belt saying he had been attacked by a stranger.

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But the toddler – the court heard – had died from nine stab wounds to his chest and neck in October 2021 in a gruesome act of revenge on the boy’s father.

When Bradacs was arrested by police they found a blood-stained knife in her handbag.

Judges at the Court of Assizes of Perugia jailed Bradacs on Wednesday, 24th May.

Prosecutor Manuela Comodi had asked for a 30-year sentence, saying Bradacs – a Hungarian national – had “acted consciously and with full premeditation”.

Judges reportedly took into account the fact that she suffers from a “partial mental defect”.

A week before the sick killing – the court heard – Bradacs discovered that judges in Hungary had awarded custody of Alex to his father, her estranged husband Norbert Juhasz.

She fled with her son to Italy where she killed the tot, pretending that a stranger had attacked him, the court was told.

Bradacs eventually confessed during her time in pre-trial detention that she had killed her son.

The boy’s heartbroken father told the court that his wife “didn’t want that child” and was a heartless mother.

He said she had once “slammed my son’s kitten against the wall”.

During the trial, Judge Carla Giangamboni had Bradacs removed from the courtroom for repeatedly interrupting her ex-husband’s evidence.

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