A mum accused of killing her four young sons, left them alone to pop to the shops when a fire broke out, the Old Bailey has heard.
Deveca Rose was charged with four counts of manslaughter after a fire tore through the ground floor of her mid-terrace house in Sutton, south London, killing twin brothers Kyson and Bryson, four, and three-year-old twins Leyton and Logan. The court heard the four children died after a discarded cigarette or upturned tea light sparked a blaze.
Prosecutor Kate Lumsdon KC told the court the boys died in a fire surrounded by rubbish and human excrement after their mother left them home alone. At about 6.30pm on December 16 2021, she left the children unattended at the house in Collingwood Road a
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