A woman who made international headlines after brutally stabbing her elderly paedophile neighbour to death has finally revealed her true motive for the grisly crime.
Sarah Sands killed Michael Pleasted, 77, in a frenzied attack after discovering the man next door was a child sex offender with three young victims in the neighbourhood – including her own 12-year-old son.
At the time, no one knew the vast extent of the man’s horror past, having groomed and assaulted countless boys before changing his name upon release from prison. He’d lived in his East London flat for 16 years before his monstrous behaviour caught up with him again.
During her trial, Ms Sands said learning of Pleasted’s past was the reason she killed him after snapping, but now for the first time she and her son Bradley have revealed the truth.
“I did what any mother would do because he did this to my son Bradley, my little boy,” she exclusively told Britain’s The Sun newspaper.
The pair was even quite close…