Mother 'to decide over bodies'

The mother of Rebecca and Daniel Smith has confessed to their murders
12 April 2012

A mother who admitted suffocating her two children with a plastic bag in a Spanish hotel room is expected to decide whether their bodies should be repatriated.

Rebecca, five, and her 11-month-old brother Daniel were found dead at the Hotel Miramar in Lloret de Mar, on the Costa Brava, on Tuesday.

British consular staff are due to visit their mother, Lianne Smith, in jail in the coming days to talk to her about whether she wants their bodies to be flown home or buried in Spain.

The bodies are understood to be held at Girona's Institute of Legal Medicine currently.

Smith, 43, was transferred to prison in Girona after a judge ruled that a case should be brought against her.

The former Cumbria County Council employee confessed to the horrific killings in notes left at the crime scene, a court in Blanes, near Lloret de Mar, heard.

Judge Rafael Fernandez remanded her in custody at the end of Friday's hearing, which was held behind closed doors and lasted several hours.

She is being held in a cell on her own and is thought to be on suicide watch.

The children died around the time Smith's partner Martin Smith, 45, was extradited to Britain to face child sex charges.

Reports in Spain suggested they were killed on Monday night and that their mother spent the night in her hotel room with their bodies.

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