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09/03/2007
Father jailed for life for child murders
A father has been jailed for life for murdering his two young children in north Wales.
At Mold Crown Court on Friday, Perry Samuel, 35, admitted suffocating his daughter Caitlin, five, and three-year-old son Aidan in the bath at their home in Bodelwyddan in north Wales on November 5 last year.
Samuel, an unemployed shop assistant who suffers from manic depression, was alone in the house in Coronation Close when the children died.
Post mortem examinations revealed that both children died as a result of asphyxiation.
Samuel was told that he would have to serve a minimum of 35 years in prison.
(KMcA/SP)
At Mold Crown Court on Friday, Perry Samuel, 35, admitted suffocating his daughter Caitlin, five, and three-year-old son Aidan in the bath at their home in Bodelwyddan in north Wales on November 5 last year.
Samuel, an unemployed shop assistant who suffers from manic depression, was alone in the house in Coronation Close when the children died.
Post mortem examinations revealed that both children died as a result of asphyxiation.
Samuel was told that he would have to serve a minimum of 35 years in prison.
(KMcA/SP)
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