A court heard how after Ford committed the crime, she ‘dressed them, dried them and placed them back in their beds’ with ‘their bodies facing away from each other towards the wall.’
Samantha Ford has been jailed for 10 years after killing her twins as ‘punishment’ for her husband Steven leaving
Ford then wrote a suicide note and attempted to kill herself by driving into a lorry at around 100mph hours later in Margate, Kent, heard a court. Heartbroken Steven, who attended a hearing at the Old Bailey on Friday, described her actions as the ‘ultimate punishment’.Steve Ford, father of Chloe and Jake Ford, described it as ‘the ultimate punishment’
Earlier, prosecutor Tom Kark QC had told how the couple had lived in Qatar for the first 10 years of their marriage but their relationship soured after they left their affluent lifestyle in the Middle East and moved to Charing in Kent in 2018. While sentencing her, Judge Andrew Edis QC said she would be transferred to a mental health ward and would serve the rest of her sentence in jail once she is discharged.‘The loss of these two young lives is a tragedy which will haunt their father and other members of two families for the rest of their lives. I accept it will also haunt you because you loved the children,’ he added.
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