A woman has been charged with manslaughter after four children were killed in a fire in South London. The fire killed four brothers in Sutton in December 2021.
Deveca Rose, 29, has also been charged with child abandonment contrary to the Children and Young Persons Act 1933. She will appear at court charged with four counts of manslaughter.
She will appear at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on Monday. Two sets of twin brothers – Leyton and Logan Hoath, aged three, and Kyson and Bryson Hoath, aged four – died after the fire at an address in Collingwood Road, Sutton, on December 16 2021.
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The two sets of twins died in the fire despite frantic efforts to save them. The London Fire Brigade sent 60 firefighters in eight fire engines to the devastating house fire.
They arrived at the house at 6.55pm on the evening in 2021, three minutes after being alerted. The four children were brought out of the home and given immediate CPR by firefighters at the scene.
The boys were rushed to two hospitals where they were pronounced dead. At the time of the blaze London Fire Commissioner Andy Roe said: “This is an incident that has left everyone numb with profound sadness.
"My thoughts are with the family and friends of the children, the whole local community and all those who will be affected by this fire. Fire crews arrived quickly and located the children inside the property.
"They were brought out of the house and given immediate emergency care. The welfare of our staff involved in this incident is very important to us and all of them will be offered counselling as a priority.”
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