A Colorado mom who is fighting extradition from Britain to the United States allegedly drugged her children and told them to close their eyes before fatally shooting and stabbing two of them, a court heard on Wednesday.
Days after the lifeless bodies of her children, aged 7 and 9, were found at her home in Colorado Springs on Dec. 19, Kimberlee Singler was arrested London on Dec. 30 after flying to the U.K.
Singler, 36, is resisting American attempts to extradite her on the grounds that her alleged crimes — which she denies — carry an automatic sentence of life without parole, which her legal team argue is a breach of the European human rights law.
Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights — a legally binding statute followed by 46 countries, including the U.K. — prohibits “inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”
Westminster Magistrates Court in Central London heard details of how she allegedly killed her children and is then said to have covered up her crimes.
The seven charges she faces, brought by the Colorado Springs Police Department and the FBI, include two counts of first degree murder after deliberation and two counts of murder of someone under 12 by a person in a position of trust.
She is also charged with the attempted murder of a third child, 11, who survived despite serious injuries and was told to lie about the ordeal, the court heard. The surviving child told police the perpetrator was a man who entered the home, but later told a foster carer that her mother was responsible for the attacks.
Singler said that God told her to do it, the court heard.
