Mum jailed for 10 years after four sons died in house fire while she went shopping
Mum jailed for 10 years after four sons died in house fire while she went shopping
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. The family of four boys who died in a house fire said ‘justice has been done’ after their mum was jailed for 10 years for leaving them home alone to go shopping.
Deveca Rose, 30, left her two sets of twins alone in the unsafe terraced house in Sutton, south west London, when the huge blaze broke out on the evening of December 16, 2021. Leyton and Logan Hoath, aged three, and four-year-olds Kyson and Bryson Hoath screamed out for help, and a neighbour desperately tried to break down the front door.
Firefighters found the bodies of the boys huddled under beds in the house which was full of rubbish and human excrement. Rose, who had split up with her partner and suffered from mental health problems, was found guilty on four counts of manslaughter. Judge Mark Lucraft KC said: ‘There are no words to describe this case other than a deeply tragic one.’.
The children’s father, Dalton Hoath, said losing his four sons was ‘the worst day of my life’. Mr Hoath, who had split up with Rose, added that he was ‘devastated’ and his world had been turned ‘upside down’ by the loss of his ‘young, boisterous lads’.
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.
