Mother’s retrial for drowning her children

A WOMAN had her convictions for drowning her children one by one in a bathtub overturned yesterday after a court ruled that a psychiatrist gave false evidence at her trial.

America was stunned in 2001 when Andrea Yates was accused of murdering her five children in the bath of their family home in Texas.

She was tried for three of the killings in Houston and sentenced to life in prison by a jury which rejected her defence of insanity.