Smoke alarm in rubbish filled house where four children died had no battery

A mother accused of leaving her two sets of twins alone in their rubbish strewn house where they died in a fire had not replaced the battery in a smoke alarm, a court heard. Deveca Rose, 29, is accused of killing Kyson and Bryson Hoath, aged four, along with Leyton and Logan Hoath, aged three, who died in the inferno in Sutton, south London. The fire started from either a discarded cigarette or an upturned tea light which spread to…