Sentencing Judge Christine Laing KC said the mother had been ‘obsessed’ at presenting herself as the perfect mother and wife in a perfect family unit, but the marriage had caused her ‘despair and rage’ and decided to try to take her life and those of her children as a way of getting revenge.
Amy Packham, prosecuting, said the woman said on the suicide voicemail: ‘The reason why I had to end my and my children’s lives is because of these people.
Ms Packham said the level both children had suffered ‘psychological harm’ that was ‘severe and ongoing’ and they would have to live the rest of their lives knowing their mother had tried to kill them.
Last February, she tucked her two children into her bed and gave them a cocktail of strong pills, including painkillers, antidepressants and sleeping tablets, to be taken ‘one by one’.
A nurse who tried to kill both her children after her husband confessed to an affair sobbed in court as she was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
