Police outside the family home where the children were found
2 May 12, 2012
Police have charged a mother with the murder of her baby son and toddler at their home in Wandsworth, southwest London.
The 10-week-old boy and his 14-month-old sister Lily Sky were found unconscious at home on Wednesday night by their father Jeff Boots, an investment banker.Met Police officers arrested his wife Felicia, 34, at the semi-detached house after paramedics were unable to revive the children.
Scotland Yard said early on Saturday that a 34-year-old woman had been charged with two counts of murder.
It has been suggested that the mother-of-two had been suffering from severe post-natal depression.
She is due to appear at South Western Magistrates' Court in south London later on Saturday.
A police spokesman said: "A 34-year-old woman has been charged with two counts of murder following the discovery of the bodies of a 14-month-old girl and a 10-week-old boy at an address in Killarney Road on Wednesday May 9."
Neighbours have spoken of their shock following the tragedy, which came just two weeks after the Boots family moved into the £1.2m property.
Mrs Boots, a trained hairdresser, had been busy completing their move from a nearby penthouse apartment in the weeks before the deaths.
The couple are understood to have moved to the UK in the last few years from Canada.
Post-mortems were carried out on the children on Friday at Great Ormond Street Hospital but pathologists were unable to find a formal cause of death.
.Culled from Skynews
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