Mother who allowed children to die in her burning ‘house of horrors’ may require help – not punishment

A woman who left her four sons alone to die in a burning room full of rubbish and excrement may require treatment rather than punishment, a court heard today. Deveca Rose, 30, was out shopping when Kyson and Bryson Hoath, aged four, and Leyton and Logan Hoath, aged three, perished in the flames at their home in Sutton, south London on 16 December 2021. Either a cigarette or a lit tea light set fire to the sofa and the blaze…