Kara Alexander faces life sentence for drowning her two young sons

A woman who drowned her two young sons and barricaded the front door with their toys when their father came to collect them is facing a life sentence. Kara Alexander, 47, killed two-year-old Elijah Thomas and Marley Thomas, five in the bath at their home in Cornwallis Road, Dagenham, east London, in December 2022. She claimed it was ‘an accident’ but after deliberating for six hours and 54 minutes, the jury at Kingston Crown Court found Alexander guilty of two…