Mother charged with killing three children

A mother has been charged with murdering three of her children.

Tania Clarence, 42, is to appear in custody at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court in south west London today, Scotland Yard said.

Postmortem examinations are being carried out at Great Ormond Street Hospital on the children who have been named as three-year-old twins Ben and Max, and four-year-old Olivia.