Claire Colebourn had hit 'rock bottom' after her marriage broke down and her husband moved out of the family home, a court heard.
However, in a letter intercepted at a hospital where she was staying, she wrote:"In my eyes I saved her, everything over those days is a blur."Prosecutor Kerry Maylin said a doctor described how Colebourn was"only emotional when discussing the fact Michael Colebourn had left her and her daughter and her father had done the same to her mother".
Mr Colebourn, who is now the chief executive of luxury marine interior company Trimline, was accused of having an affair with the company's finance director. An NSPCC spokesperson said:"This is a desperately sad case in which a young child lost her life in the most tragic of circumstances.
United Kingdom Latest News, United Kingdom Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Claire Colebourn says she drowned daughter to keep her safeMother tells trial she believed three-year-old would be safer in heaven away from father
Read more »
Mother drowned 3-year-old daughter in bath following marriage breakdown, court finds'Bethan drowned because I was there, I held her under the water,' Claire Colebourn told police
Read more »
Woman who drowned 3-year-old daughter found guilty of murderClaire Colebourn believed Bethan would be ‘safer in heaven’ than with her father
Read more »
Woman who fled family celebrates first birthday as a free womanRahaf Mohammed (pictured) captured global attention in December after she barricaded herself in an airport hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand.
Read more »
Mum guilty of murdering her three-year-old daughter by drowning her in bathClaire Colebourn, 36, did not react as the jury foreman read out the verdict at Winchester Crown Court, Hampshire, today
Read more »
Inside Emmerdale Kim Tate actress Claire King’s incredible country home with huge garden and log fireEMMERDALE actress Claire King really is Lady of the Manor when it comes to her own country home. The actress, who plays Kim Tate in the hit ITV soap, has been showing off her posh gaff on social me…
Read more »
Mum accused of drowning daughter told: 'Don't you dare do away with yourself'Claire Coleburn, from Fordingbridge, Hampshire, is standing trial accused of the murder of her daughter Bethan
Read more »
Mum tells court she drowned daughter, 3, as 'she was safer in heaven than with estranged husband'A MUM told a court today she drowned her three-year-old daughter because she was “safer in heaven” than with her estranged husband. Claire Colebourn claimed the only way to keep her dau…
Read more »
Mum who 'killed daughter, 3, in bath Googled “how to kill by drowning”'A MUM spent weeks Googling “how to kill by drowning” before killing her three-year-old daughter in the bath, a court heard today. Claire Colebourn, 36, allegedly held little Bethan unde…
Read more »
Mum drowned daughter, 3, after wrongly believing husband was having affairA MUM drowned her three-year-old daughter in the bath because she wrongly feared her estranged husband was having an affair. Claire Colebourn held little Bethan under the water before putting her o…
Read more »