New date set for SA murder case

The case, which was moved for procedural reasons, would resume on October 13, it reported.

 

The woman was due to appear on Friday at the Old Bailey for a pre-trial hearing.

 

At her last appearance, the 42-year-old mother admitted to killing her children. Tania Clarence wept in the dock as she pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility of Olivia, four, and three-year-old twins Ben and Max.

 

But she denied murdering the three children between April 20 and 23.

 

A date was set for a three- to four-week trial to start on February 21 next year.

 

She was remanded to a mental hospital.

 

Police were called to the family's five-bedroom home in Thetford Road in the wealthy south-west London suburb of New Malden on April 22 where they discovered the children, who were pronounced dead at the scene.

 

All three of Clarence's children suffered from type two spinal muscular atrophy.

 

Also known as floppy baby syndrome, the genetic condition leaves children with little control of their movements and can drastically shorten life expectancy.

 

Clarence was treated for cuts at St George's Hospital in Tooting, south London, and charged on April 24.

 

 

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