Mother too drunk to remember how nine newborn babies died

A WOMAN suspected of killing nine of her newborn children told German investigators she gave birth to them in secret, but cannot remember how they died because she was always drunk during labour, officials said yesterday.

The 39-year-old woman, identified only as Sabine H, was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of manslaughter after police found the nine tiny bodies in flower pots and a fish tank in a village near the Polish border.

Investigators said the woman cracked under interrogation but it remained unclear how, why or by whom the children were killed in what is believed to be Germany’s worst infanticide.