What a tragic case.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....hildrens-throats.html

What a tragic case, maybe the wife had mental problems but why did she have to take the lives of her children, and what of her husband, he has lost a wife, and his two children, a whole family destroyed, so tragic.

Incidentally why is the killing of these children deemed 'unlawful killings', why not 'Murder'?

[jackthehat]

If she had mental problems, she would have been beyond being able to see that killing her children was wrong.
Her husband must be crushed.....I really don't know how people move on from something like this.

A person is charged with murder......the victim is always 'unlawfully killed'.

[Euphemia]

Very, very sad

[jno]

you can't say they've been murdered if nobody's been convicted of murdering them. Unlawful killing covers manslaughter as well. Very sad, but really no indication of why it happened.

[boxtops]

Sadly this is not the first such incident. If a person is mentally disturbed - for whatever reason - they believe that this is the only way out, and they are doing their children a kindess by not leaving them behind.

[SeaJayPea]

Agreed. A very tragic case. And not the first of its kind in recent years.

I think that inquest juries are not allowed to bring in a verdict of murder any more. At one time they could and could name the person they thought had committed the murder. That was changed a long time ago. The last person to whom this applied was Lord Lucan!

Unlawful Killing allows the prosecuting authorities to call it either murder or manslaughter.

[eyethenkyew]

I see my answer was removed because, presumably? I referred to the wife yesterday as a "selfish bitch"? That term was in response to the poster asking "why did she have to take the lives of her two children".

In other words, that woman's decision to slaughter her two kids was an extremely selfish act on her behalf - they had no say in the matter - that's all I meant by it.

It would be an odd, odd world if we all agreed on everything or were not allowed to express honest, if controversial, views?

[Old_Geezer]

If that was the reason then presumably your follow up one may get removed as well ?

I'm unsure legally one needs loads of names to cover the range of causing death. Many seem to be the same thing just with mitigating circumstances. Why not call them all "murder" and then judge the circumstances separately ?

[boxtops]

ETW - perhaps because if the woman was mentally disturbed, she's not thinking straight at all - selfish doesn't come into it, how can you be selfish if you can't see any other way out your situation?