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Ill woman killed son and daughter | |
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A woman who admitted killing her son and daughter has been detained indefinitely. | |
Vivian Gamor, 29, beat her son Antoine, 10, around the head and suffocated three-year-old Kenniece at their flat in Pembury Close, Hackney, east London. | Vivian Gamor, 29, beat her son Antoine, 10, around the head and suffocated three-year-old Kenniece at their flat in Pembury Close, Hackney, east London. |
Their bodies were found on 27 January when police were called to the flat. | |
Gamor was held under the Mental Health Act after the Old Bailey judge agreed her responsibility was diminished through paranoid schizophrenia. | |
The court heard she was being treated for a serious mental illness but at the time of the killings had not been taking anti-psychotic drugs. | |
Judge Peter Rook QC criticised the involvement of Hackney's social services department. | |
He said the case was a truly appalling tragedy that could have been avoided if Gamor had not been given unsupervised access to her children. | |
He added not enough weight had been given to the concerns of the children's father. |