A WOMAN accused of battering her mother-in-law to death with a rolling pin told police she did not know how she sustained more than 20 major injuries to her head.

In police interviews read to jurors at Winchester Crown Court, Rajvinder Kaur described the moment she allegedly found her 56-year-old mother-in-law Baljir Kaur Buttar, known as Bibi, in a pool of blood in the bathroom.

She said she knocked on the door with a young child in the house and both looked underneath it before getting a knife to twist open the lock.

The 35-year-old said: “We just couldn’t look. He (the child) started to cry and I also felt like crying and I started to wonder what had happened.

“There was a lot of blood and I just couldn’t look at that.”

When asked whether she helped, she told police she did not enter the room but moved a bloodstained mop back into the bucket she says must have fallen over, before calling her husband.

She claimed in interview her mother-in- law may have slipped on baby oil in the bath and fallen or had a heart attack at the flat in Broadlands Road, Southampton, on February 25.

When asked why she did not tell her husband Iqbal Singh to call an ambulance or rush home, she said she was concerned he would get worried and might have an accident if he rushed.

When asked about the rolling pin alleged to have been the murder weapon, which tested positive for Mrs Buttar’s blood, Kaur said a young child must have got it from a cupboard and thrown it on the floor.

Firstly she said she put it in the sink ready to wash it but later said maybe someone else did. She also said she believed it worked properly but later said the child could have damaged it when it was put to her that the steel in the rolling pin was bent.

Kaur admitted no intruder entered the flat that morning, neither did the couple have any visitors.

But when it was put to her she was the murderer who caused the injuries that were not consistent with a fall, she replied: “She is my Bibi, how could I hit her?”

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