A BRITISH woman suffocated her two young children and placed their bodies in a large gym bag in the boot of her car foll-owing the breakdown of her relationship with their father, a court has heard.

A woman appeared at the Old Bailey today accused of killing her two children, whose bodies were found in the boot of a car.

The mother of two toddlers whose bodies were found in holdalls in the boot of her car was remanded in custody today charged with their murders.

Detectives in England were today still waiting to question a former City worker suspected of murdering her two young children after recently splitting from her partner.