No Stone Unturned
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I think she was afraid of the stories the 5 year girl would tell.
She told police: "I gave my children a three-day holiday, a perfect holiday, we were very, very happy. We came here with nothing, we had left everything again. This was the end of the road, I knew my children would be taken back to England. My daughter didn't want to go, she didn't want to leave me.
"So I know it's not right to take another life, but I felt I was in a corner and my intention was for me and my children to go. It was not just the children, it was me as well."
The court heard that after killing the children, Smith tried to take her own life.
A mother suspected of killing her two young children in a Spanish hotel room allegedly left a suicide note saying 'I hope you can forgive me'.
from article
Lianne Smith faces up to 34 years in a Spanish prison after she was last night found guilty of murdering her two children.
The British mother stared blankly at the floor as the unanimous verdict rang out at Girona Provincial Court, in north-east Spain.
The 45-year-old is now on suicide watch after previously trying to kill herself.
A jury of seven men and two women at the provincial court in Girona, north-east Spain, will decide whether she is criminally responsible for the children's deaths. They will be assisted by two further jury members who take part in deliberations but do not have a vote.
On Monday, her 21 year-old son, Chris Smith, told of his grief and said he would never forgive his mother for what she did.
Mr Smith, from Newcastle, said the conviction of his mother brings an end to his "worst nightmare".