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When the babies were 10 days old, she awoke sometime between midnight and 4am with a terrible feeling of foreboding. Whilst the rest of the household slept, she took both of her infant daughters from their crib, dragged the tin bath into the back yard and filled it with cold water from the water butt: she would later remember that the cold had made her feel more energised than she had for months. Then she put the babies, still clothed, into the full bath and went back to bed.

At 4.30am she woke her sleeping husband and said agitatedly that she’d left the babies downstairs. He explored the downstairs rooms then went out into the yard and found them, drowned, in the tin bath. He confronted Beth with this but she denied it, saying that she’d merely bathed them and left them downstairs. Increasingly confused, she began to weep.

The police were summoned and Beth was taken to the local hospital, by which time her mental health had deteriorated further. She talked to babies that only she could see, complained of pains in her head and retreated into a world of her own.