THREE children saw their uncle knife their mother to death in a “sustained and frenzied attack”, an inquest heard today (December 6).

The 28-year-old knifeman had been living with his brother and 36-year-old sister-in-law at their flat in Evelyn Street, Deptford, when the killing happened on October 22 last year.

Southwark Coroner’s Court heard how the 28-year-old had been asked that morning to leave the house by his brother before he left for work.

But hours later the man went on the attack, stabbing the woman at least 13 times after she asked him to leave her kitchen.

In a statement, one of the children, called Child A for legal reasons, said he had pulled the knife from a cutlery drawer and that he had “lots” of them.

She said: “Me and my brother were screaming ‘don’t, please don’t’, but he carried on.”

Moments later she could see her mother lying on the floor with a knife in her back.

Child A said: “He was trying to hurt her with the other knives.”

She added: “I felt really scared. I wanted to say he should stop it.”

She said of her uncle: “He said that he was going to kill himself but he was sorry that he did it.”

In her statement, she told police: “I don’t want anymore questions. I want my mum.”

The second daughter Child B told police: “My uncle went into the kitchen then put a knife in her back.”

She told them: “I feel sad. I don’t want my mummy to die.”

Both children called the police, but despite attempts, neither person could be resuscitated.

Coroner Shanta Deonarine, who branded it “a sustained and frenzied attack” gave the cause of death for the woman as multiple stab wounds to the chest.

The uncle died as a result of a stab wound to the abdomen, she ruled.