Met PoliceA mother who murdered her two young sons in the bath in east London has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Kara Alexander, 47, of Dagenham, was found guilty of killing Elijah Thomas, two, and Marley Thomas, five, at their home in Cornwallis Road in December 2022.
At Kingston Crown Court on Friday, Mr Justice Bennathan sentenced Alexander to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 21 years and 252 days.
Post-mortem examinations concluded the boys had either drowned or suffocated.
The jury previously heard how the children's father was due to look after the boys during the upcoming weekend and became concerned as Alexander had not contacted him.
On arrival at their home, she told him the children were upstairs sleeping, the court was told.
But when he went upstairs, he found the boys' bodies together in the lower bunk of their shared bunk bed dressed in pyjamas, having died several hours earlier.
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