A trainee witch has admitted beheading her three-year-old nephew on the orders of a dark arts teacher in Nepal

The 25-year-old was told her skills would only be complete after sacrificing her nephew and eldest son. Police in Nepal arrested the suspect in the town of Samanpur, south of the country's capital Kathmandu and charged her with sacrificing a child. Officers said that Mahadevi Yadav beheaded Nitesh Kumar Yadav and has confessed to the crime. Yadav then threw the boy's head into the Bagmati river while she buried the torso in her pooja room. Police have exhumed the body and taken it to Gaur near the border with India for a post mortem. According to Yadav, her guru further demanded that she sacrifice her eldest son as well. An Indian couple was arrested recently for attempting to bury her child alive on the orders of a guru.