Woman Bags 10 Years Jail Term After 4 Sons Die In Fire Incident
Written by News Desk on January 24, 2025
A woman has been jailed for 10 years for the manslaughter of her four sons who died in a house fire while she was out shopping.
Deveca Rose, 30, had left her two sets of twins alone when a fire ripped through their terraced house in Sutton, south-west London, on 16 December 2021.
Four-year-olds Kyson and Bryson Hoath and Leyton and Logan Hoath, three, were unable to escape the locked house and died under a bed.
Rose was found guilty of four counts of manslaughter following a trial at the Old Bailey last autumn.
She was cleared of a single count of child cruelty.
The family had been living in a house with “rubbish all over the floor and human excrement”, the trial heard.
A fire investigation report concluded the blaze had been started by either a discarded cigarette or upturned tealight and spread due to the rubbish on the floor.
Sentencing Rose, Judge Mark Lucraft KC said that none of the shopping she had gone out to buy on the day of the fire was “essential or vital”.
This was a “deeply tragic” case with the lives of four young children “gone in just a few moments through an intense fire,” Judge Lucraft said.
“You will have to live with the knowledge you bear responsibility for the deaths of your four children.”
BBC
