Murdered boys’ mother breaks down in court

A FORMER prostitute whose husband is accused of murdering their two sons broke down in court yesterday after being accused of helping unidentified “assassins” to kill the children.

Denise Williams, 26, dismissed as lies suggestions made by her husband Steven’s defence lawyer she had given “directions” to killers who butchered her sons and then stabbed her husband.

Steven Wilson, of Linden Avenue, Great Barr, West Midlands, denies murdering Brad, seven, and Brett, eight, and causing actual bodily harm to his wife on February 6, 2002.

He drove the boys to an isolated spot near Handsworth, Birmingham, where he allegedly slit Brad’s throat before plunging a screwdriver into Brett’s neck and stabbing himself in the chest.

The prosecution claims Wilson, 44, then invented an elaborate story about how criminals had been “after him” over cash his wife is said to have stolen from a brothel.

His defence barrister, Patrick Thomas QC, asked Denise Williams during cross examination if she had threatened to have Wilson and their sons “sorted out”.

Rejecting the claims, Ms Williams, who has reverted to her maiden name and is divorcing Wilson, told the jury: “It was nothing like that.”

The witness also denied she had given information to “people that were after” her partner.

David Crigman QC, prosecuting, then asked Ms Williams: “As I understand it, what has been suggested to you on the defendant’s instructions is that you gave a direction that he, and conceivably your children, should be subjected either to serious harm or death. That is what is being put to you.”

Ms Williams sobbed as she told the jury: “My kids meant the world to me. I am not an evil person. I wouldn’t want anybody to go through what I have been through. I wouldn’t want anybody to go through the pain and torture the boys went through.”

She was then granted five minutes to compose herself, returning to the witness box to claim she had not even known where her husband planned to take the children on the night they died.

Under cross examination, Ms Williams maintained Williams had forced her into a life of vice.