Depressed mother sought to end her kids’ suffering

A depressed mother wept as a court heard how she smothered her disabled sons with a nappy so they would not smell her, before killing their sister and trying to take her own life.

Tania Clarence, 43, has admitted the manslaughter by diminished responsibility of Olivia, four, and three-year-old twins Ben and Max at the family home in New Malden, south-west London, over the Easter holidays.

The children were found dead, tucked into their beds with toys arranged around their heads.