Mother charged over triple murders

A woman wept yesterday as she appeared in court charged with the murder of her three young disabled children.

Tania Clarence, aged 42, looked over at her husband and broke down in tears as she stood in the dock accused of killing her three-year-old twin sons, Ben and Max, and four year-old daughter, Olivia, at their home.

Her investment banker husband, Gary, aged 43, also broke down in tears as he locked eyes with his wife from his seat in the public gallery during the brief hearing yesterday at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court.