Claire Colebourn 'drowned daughter amid husband's affair fears'
A mother drowned her three-year-old daughter in a bath a month after separating from her husband, whom she believed was having an affair, a court has heard.Claire Colebourn, 36, had searched for websites about suicide and drowning before the death, Winchester Crown Court heard.Kerry Maylin, prosecuting, said Bethan was found lying on a wet bed at her home in Whitsbury Road on 19 October. Paramedics were unable to revive her.
The court was told the defence did not dispute that Ms Colebourn had killed the couple's only daughter and that she was suffering from a diabetic episode when Bethan was found. Ms Maylin said the defendant told friends she then tried to kill herself by hanging herself, stabbing herself in the stomach and taking a fatal overdose of insulin.
In hospital, Ms Colebourn wrote a letter to a relative saying about Bethan:"In my eyes, I saved her", the court heard.
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