A mother has been sentenced to a decade in prison after her four ‘well-mannered and cheerful’ sons perished in a house fire caused by her decision to leave them locked inside while she visited Sainsbury’s.
Deveca Rose, 30, abandoned her two pairs of twins in the hazardous terraced property in Sutton, southwest London, when a massive fire erupted on the evening of December 16, 2021.
Leyton and Logan Hoath, aged three, and four-year-olds Kyson and Bryson Hoath cried for help, while a neighbor urgently attempted to break down the front door.
Firefighters discovered the bodies of the boys beneath beds, and the residence was covered in human waste and debris.
Rose, who had separated from her partner and struggled with mental health challenges, was convicted on four counts of manslaughter.
Judge Mark Lucraft KC remarked: ‘This case is beyond description—it’s profoundly tragic.’
The children’s father, Dalton Hoath, expressed that losing his four sons was ‘the most harrowing day of my life’.
Mr. Hoath, who had distanced himself from the defendant, further stated that he was ‘devastated’ and that the loss of his ‘energetic young boys’ had turned his world ‘upside down’.
