Mum Deveca Rose who killed her four kids in fire after leaving them home alone jailed
Mum Deveca Rose who killed her four kids in fire after leaving them home alone jailed
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The mum who killed her four sweet sons in a fire when they were left home alone has been jailed for 10 years - in what the youngsters' relatives described as "justice". Deveca Rose, 30, hid her face as she appeared at the Old Bailey to be sentenced over the deaths of her two sets of twins, aged three and four, after she left the four of them alone at their home in Sutton to go to Sainsbury's on December 16, 2021. A fire broke out in the locked home - likely from a tea light - killing all four of the children, the Old Bailey heard. Judge Mark Lucraft KC told her: "You abandoned them. You were not there and the children were too young to know what to do. As a result of what you did, they were all killed.”.
Leyton and Logan Hoath, aged three, and Kyson and Bryson Hoath, aged four, were tragically found by firefighters under beds and taken to hospital where they were pronounced dead. The 30-year-old mother denied manslaughter, and claimed she had a friend called Jade looking after them, however police concluded she either did not exist or played no part in the events of that evening.
Rose covered her head with a thick padded hood as she sat in the dock of Court One for the start of her sentencing by Judge Mark Lucraft KC. The judge accepted Rose was the person in the dock and that there was a medical reason for her not showing her face.
Jurors previously heard the defendant may have had a personality disorder, but the prosecution asserted that was not a defence. Today's sentencing hearing was told doctors had diagnosed Rose with a number of mental health disorders and she had struggled during the Covid pandemic. It also heard Rose had shown a lack of engagement with mental health specialists in the wake of her arrest and conviction and that it had been concluded that a hospital detention order was unsuitable. The court also heard she is losing her eyesight.
