Man ‘stabbed mother repeatedly’

A man repeatedly stabbed his mother after fatally wounding his sister just weeks after he was discharged from the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, an inquest in Oldbury has heard.

Melvin James’s mother told her son “I love you” as he stabbed her at a Wolverhampton flat. James launched the assault as his sister, Annemarie, lay dying. Footage showed police tasering the knife-wielding 36-year-old. Despite treatment, Mr James, who had self-inflicted knife wounds, died at the scene but his mother survived.