【01.05.23泰晤士报】‘Killer’ mother goes on hunger strike

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‘Killer’ mother goes on hunger strike

THE British mother who admitted suffocating her two children with a plastic bag in a Spanish hotel room is refusing to eat or drink and has been placed on a suicide watch by prison authorities.

Lianne Smith has told prison staff in Girona she wants to “join her children on the other side”. Smith, 43, has been visited by a doctor and British consular staff. Police confirmed she had tried to kill herself after taking the lives of her children and believe she will attempt suicide again.

Warders have put her in isolation to protect her from other inmates. A source said: “She is being watched because on several occasions she has said she wants to leave this world and join her children.”

A court hearing on Friday heard how Smith, a former manager at Cumbria county council’s children’s services department, fled to Spain because she feared her children would be taken into care by social services in Britain.

The father of the children, Martin Smith, 45, originally from North Shields, was one of Britain’s most wanted men until his arrest by Spanish police earlier this month after nearly two and a half years on the run with his family.

He has been charged in Carlisle with 13 sexual offences and one for jumping bail.

onsular officials will now talk to Lianne about whether she wants the bodies of Rebecca, 5, and 11-month-old Daniel to be flown home or buried in Spain.

If they are brought back to the UK it is expected that a coroner here will open inquests into their deaths.

The fate of the children’s bodies is a difficult one because both parents are in custody on serious charges of offences against minors and no other family members have yet come forward to request a repatriation.

The 43-year-old is said to have confessed after her arrest on Tuesday to putting a plastic bag over their heads in room 101 of the Miramar hotel in the holiday resort of Lloret de Mar.

Martin Smith, skipped bail and went on the run abroad with Lianne

and Rebecca in December 2007. Their son Daniel was born in

Barcelona in June last year.

Spanish police detained Martin Smith in Barcelona on May 7 on an

international arrest warrant — weeks after Lianne reported a

burglary at their flat, a call believed to have triggered the arrest.

Lianne, who is not married to Martin Smith, also has a grown-up

son and a daughter from a previous relationship.

steve fenton wrote:

Best place for any murderer, the other side save a fortune

May 23, 2010 4:53 AM BST

antonia willis wrote:

Pity this poor woman. It may or may not be the case that the

evidence against her husband stacks up. Fear of the state stealing

children, in secret procedures, is probably responsible for more

horrific events than we are allowed to know about. Family courts

need to be opened up. This could be a straightforward case of the

police getting it right, and an hysterical partner reacting, or it could

be a case of a horrific over-reaction by the police coinciding with a

parent's deep terror of secret court procedures.

May 23, 2010 1:50 AM BST

Geoff Smith wrote:

She was appointed manager of a childrens service department?

there should be some sleeping uneasily tonight.

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