She has serious mental heath problems and was a lone parent to two sets of twins, just a year apart. It is impossible that she could have coped.
The house was dirty and untidy. Of course it was. She left the children alone to go shopping, which she must have known she shouldn’t, but it takes about half an hour to get four small children ready to leave the house and imagine the difficulties of getting four lively under-fives along busy roads to the shop, then back again.
A nursery would not allow one adult to do this. Why was she not given the help she desperately needed?
Losing her whole family in a fire, knowing it was her fault, is punishment enough, without locking her up for ten years.
I feel so sad and angry.
