No family at funeral of children 'murdered by their mother' in Spanish hotel
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"The children allegedly murdered by their mother in a Spanish holiday hotel were buried today in a tearful ceremony snubbed by their relatives.
Rebecca Smith, five, and brother Daniel, just 11 months, were remembered in the poignant funeral service held just a mile from the room in the Costa Brava resort of Lloret de Mar where expat mum Lianne is accused of smothering them to death with a plastic bag.
The tragic pair were buried in the same grave.
Around 40 mourners including the town mayor, police chiefs, and teachers and parents at the school Rebecca attended in Barcelona, gathered in a tiny chapel at the town cemetery to pay their last respects.
But neither the children's mum or their alleged paedophile dad Martin - both currently languishing in jail - were there.
And other UK-based relatives of the dead children including their grandparents, aunts and uncles, also failed to attend.
Local police chief Cesar Martinez, speaking moments before the start of a 20-minute remembrance service at the 19-century chapel, said: 'Unfortunately today there are no members of the two children's family.
'We made every effort possible to contact their relatives including grandparents, uncles and aunts but nobody has come.
'The children's mother had the right to come here today if she so wished.
'She's not yet been convicted of any offence and if she asked to come, the authorities would have brought her but that's clearly not the case.' "