Mum guilty of killing four sons who died in house fire while left home alone

A mum has been found guilty of killing her four young sons who died in a house fire when she locked them inside to go to Sainsbury’s.

Deveca Rose, 30, left her two sets of twins alone in the terraced house in Sutton, southwest London, when the huge blaze broke out on the evening of December 16, 2021.

The Old Bailey heard Leyton and Logan Hoath, aged three, and four-year-olds Kyson and Bryson Hoath were trapped and called out for help.

A neighbour desperately tried to break down the front door before firefighters in breathing apparatus went in and found the boys’ bodies under beds.

Rose, who had split up with her partner and suffered from mental health problems, denied manslaughter and child cruelty.

Jurors took three hours and 22 minutes to find her guilty of four counts of manslaughter by a majority of 11 to one but not guilty of child cruelty.

Judge Mark Lucraft KC said it was a ‘tragic case’ as he adjourned sentencing to November 15 and granted Rose continued bail.

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