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Woman who drowned daughter, 4, then burnt her body convicted

Carly Ann Harris and her late daughter Amelia.

The mum of a schizophrenic woman who drowned her four-year-old daughter and set her body on fire has said she is "not a monster" after she was found not guilty of murder.

Carly Ann Harris, 38, believed she was sacrificing her pretty, brown-haired daughter Amelia "to save the world", the court was told.

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