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A mentally-ill woman who admitted killing her son and daughter has been detained indefinitely. | A mentally-ill woman who admitted killing her son and daughter has been detained indefinitely. |
Vivian Gamor, 29, beat Antoine, 10, and suffocated Kenniece, three, at her home in Hackney, east London, in January, the Old Bailey heard. | |
Judge Peter Rook QC criticised Hackney Council, saying the tragedy could have been avoided had Gamor not been given unsupervised access to her children. | Judge Peter Rook QC criticised Hackney Council, saying the tragedy could have been avoided had Gamor not been given unsupervised access to her children. |
Not enough weight had been given to the concerns of their father, he said. | |
The system that I obeyed has frogmarched my children to their deaths Jimi OgunkoyaFather | |
The children's father, Jimi Ogunkoya, blamed social services for their deaths. | |
"I obeyed the law and let them go," he said in a court statement. | |
"I wish I had not done that. The system that I obeyed has frogmarched my children to their deaths. | |
"They assessed her and found nothing wrong. This is pure negligence, which will not be tolerated," | |
Gamor was detained under the Mental Health Act after the judge agreed her responsibility was diminished through paranoid schizophrenia. | |
Mother Nature Vivian | |
The court heard Gamor was sectioned for serious mental illness in early 2006 and the children moved in with their father. | |
She had claimed the children were not hers, that Jesus was her twin and changed her name by deed poll to Mother Nature Vivian. | |
But Gamor was later released from care after doctors concluded she posed no risk to herself or others. | |
She was gradually granted supervised and then, on three occasions, unsupervised access to her children. | |
It was on the third occasion of unsupervised access that Gamor killed her children during the night at her flat in Pembury Close. | |
Hackney and City Safeguarding Children's Board has ordered an inquiry into the deaths. | |
Board chairman Fran Pearson said: "This is a tragic case which has been devastating for this family, and has affected everyone involved with it." | Board chairman Fran Pearson said: "This is a tragic case which has been devastating for this family, and has affected everyone involved with it." |
She said lessons would be learned from the findings of the Serious Case Review, which will be published next month. |