Mother jailed over the deaths of her four home alone sons in fire
Mother jailed over the deaths of her four home alone sons in fire
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A woman whose four young boys died in a fire after she left them home alone to go to Sainsbury’s has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Deveca Rose had left her two sets of twins, aged three and four, in the locked terraced house when the blaze broke out on the evening of December 16, 2021.
The 30-year-old defendant, who had split up with her partner and suffered from mental health problems, was found guilty of four counts of manslaughter following an Old Bailey trial. On Friday, Rose, who was on bail throughout her trial, sobbed with her head covered in the dock of Court One as she was sentenced by Judge Mark Lucraft KC.
In a televised hearing, the judge sentenced her to 10 years in prison. Earlier, the boys’ father Dalton Hoath said losing his four sons – Leyton and Logan, aged three and four-year-olds Kyson and Bryson – was “the worst day of my life”. In a statement read by a relative on his behalf, he said: “Their lives had just begun but were cut so short. It was every parent’s worst nightmare.
“I’m not a great talker but even if I was I could not put it in words. I simply want to join them. “I will never recover from losing my funny, beautiful boys. I have to fight for all of us left behind and live with this massive pain in my heart before I meet them again.”.
Great grandmother Sally Johnson wept in court and she told of the “horror” and “pain” of her loss. She said: “The thought of them crying and screaming out will haunt me forever. My only comfort is they are now together forever and need never be alone again. I’m afraid I will never be able to forgive.”.
