Boys died in rubbish-strewn house fire, court hears

Four young boys died in a fire surrounded by rubbish and human excrement after their mother left them home alone to go to Sainsbury’s, a court has heard.

Deveca Rose, 29, denies the manslaughter of her two sets of twins, Leyton and Logan Hoath, aged three, and Kyson and Bryson Hoath, aged four, and child cruelty.

The four children died after a discarded cigarette or upturned tea light sparked a blaze at their terraced home in Sutton, south London.

The boys are believed to have run upstairs and cried for help but were unable to escape the locked house and died under a bed, the Old Bailey was told.