London,
June 19: A British woman faces at least 38 years in prison on charges
of killing her two children while they slept in a hotel room in Spain
and spending the night with their lifeless bodies.
Lianne
Smith, 45, admitted suffocating her five-year-old daughter Rebecca
Smith and 11-month-old son Daniel with a plastic bag at a hotel in
Lloret de Mar in the Costa Brava coastal region in May 2010.
She
went on trial at the Provincial Court in Girona, in northeast Spain. A
jury will determine whether she is criminally responsible for the
children's deaths, The Sun reported.
Her
defence lawyer is seeking an acquittal, claiming the woman was in a
state of "psychiatric disturbance" when the incident took place
The
killings took place shortly after the woman's partner was arrested in
Barcelona by Spanish police acting on a European arrest warrant. He was
deported to Britain.
The
family had been living in Spain since 2007 after fleeing Lichfield,
Staffordshire, when the man was accused of sexually abusing a young
girl.
The
following day, the woman asked the hotel's reception for the police and
an ambulance to be called. She confessed to the police and judicial
authorities that she had killed her children.
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