The victim, identified as Minimol of Thalavoor, was having mental ailments and was living at a destitute centre in Kollam since 2007.
Her son Jomon, 30, took her from the centre in a two wheeler and later stabbed her to death on the road.
As per witnesses, the woman was stabbed multiple times and Jomon was violent when he was overpowered by the local people and handed over to the police.
Jomon told police officers that he had done the dastardly act to liberate his mother from sufferings and to give her ‘eternal peace’.
Police said that Minimol was brought to a private hospital nearby but succumbed to her injuries.
–IANS
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