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Veronique John allegedly stabbed her two children before driving to attack her husband at a car wash

She allegedly told police she'd thought about killing herself and the kids, and said "Unless you are offering me the death penalty I have nothing else to say"

John had been ruled unfit to plead and is undergoing a trial of facts at Nottingham Crown Court

A British mother fatally stabbed her two children and then drove to a car wash to stab her husband, all because she didn’t want him to have custody, a court has heard.

Veronique John, 50, is accused of killing her son Ethan John, 11, by stabbing him more than 20 times, and inflicting fatal brain injuries on her 7-year-old daughter, Elizabeth John.

The children died in June 2023 in what prosecutors described as an eruption

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