Mother ‘calm’ after killing her children

A mother who killed her young son and daughter in a Spanish hotel room was “astonishingly calm” when she showed police their bodies, a court heard.

Lianne Smith, 45, has admitted smothering five-year-old Rebecca and 11-month-old Daniel with a plastic bag at the Miramar Hotel in Lloret de Mar on the Costa Brava in May 2010.

She is on trial at the Provincial Court in Girona, north-east Spain, so a jury can determine whether she is criminally responsible for the children’s deaths.