Mother who suffocated children tried to kill herself

A WOMAN who admitted suffocating her two children with a plastic bag in aSpanish hotel room last week tried to kill herself before she was arrested, police said yesterday.

Rebecca Smith, five, and her 11-month-old brother Daniel were found dead at the Hotel Miramar in Lloret de Mar, on the Costa Brava, on Tuesday last.

Their mother, Lianne Smith, is believed to be on suicide watch in jail in Girona in Spain, and said to be eating and drinking very little.