Tycoon’s son is locked up for killings

THE SON of a bagel tycoon has been locked up indefinitely for killing his mother and sister, who were stabbed to death at the £2.5m family home just days after his release from prison.

In 2018, Joshua Cohen, 29, was sent to Broadmoor hospital after being found mentally unfit to enter pleas to charges of murdering mother-of-five Louise Cohen, 64, and Hannah Cohen, 33.

After his mental health improved, Cohen, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was brought back to the Old Bailey.

He entered guilty pleas to the manslaughter of the women by diminished responsibility, but denied their murders.

Prosecutor Sarah Whitehouse QC said the Crown accepted the pleas following psychiatric reports.

Handing Cohen a hospital order without limit of time, Judge Richard Marks QC offered his condolences to his family for their “terrible ordeal”.

He said: “It is clear (from) all the evidence that Joseph is a very, very sick man.

“I have read of your concerns expressed by you for the future but I’m entirely confident it will be a long time before he will be released in the community.”

The court heard Cohen worked at family-owned Beigel Bake bakery in the East End, but left after “issues” with customers.

He lived in an annex in the garden of the Cohens’ six-bedroom mansion in Golders Green, north London, only being allowed in to the main house if one of his brothers was present.

On the evening of August 11, 2017, he attacked his widowed mother and sister in the basement laundry room after Mrs Cohen let him into house. Mrs Cohen suffered 13 stab wounds and her daughter was stabbed in the neck, severing the carotid artery.