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Mother who drowned toddler twins to punish husband for forcing her to leave lavish lifestyle jailed for 10 years

Samantha Ford, 38, will also be required to spend time at a psychiatric unit until she is declared fit for prison
PUBLISHED AUG 17, 2019

CHARING, KENT: A narcissistic mother who drowned her IVF toddler twins in the bath out of anger at her estranged husband has been sentenced to jail for 10 years.

Samantha Ford will also be required to spend time at a psychiatric unit until she is declared fit for prison. 

The 38-year-old mother murdered her 23-month-old twins, Jake and Chloe, as she could not deal with the split from her husband Steven.

Judge Justice Edis, while sentencing Ford to 10 years which will start by her serving in a mental unit, said: "Your anger with your husband was a significant contributory factor."

"In deciding to kill your children and yourself, I am sure that you had thoughts of the effect this would have on Steven Ford, with whom all the psychiatrists say you were preoccupied. You knew it would devastate him and I’m sure that is a reason why you did it," he added. 

Steven and Samantha Ford's marriage fell apart after they moved from Qatar to the UK (Facebook)

Ford killed her twins around Christmas last year. She had then driven her car at around 100mph into the back of a lorry while not wearing a seatbelt.

When the police managed to get to her, Samantha told them, "I’ve killed my babies. Please let me die. I put them in the bath. We were meant to be together. I was going to jump off a cliff but it’s too dark."

Before the couple had separated, Samantha had told Steven that he had ripped her world apart and they were a broken family living in a "shithole."

The prosecutor had previously shared that the pair had lived in Qatar for the first 10 years of their marriage.

Their marriage had started to break apart when they left their affluent lifestyle and moved to Charing, Kent in 2018.

After the couple separated, Samantha's mental health started to rapidly decline and she had sent many text messages to her husband trying to convince him to return to her.

She took her children and moved to Margate while Steven stayed in Charing. 

By Christmas that year, Samantha's family said that her mental health was so bad that they decided that Steven should take the kids and bring them back on Boxing Day.

Samantha later drowned the children that same evening. The authorities then found the twins dead in their bedroom at their home in Kent.

Samantha had denied murdering the twins but did admit to two counts of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility while at a hearing in May. 

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