A mother who suffered post-natal depression has admitted killing her two children.
Felicia Boots, 35, killed Lily Boots, aged 14 months, and her 10-week-old brother Mason at their home in Wandsworth, south-west London, in May.
Her manslaughter plea on the grounds of diminished responsibility was accepted by the prosecution at the Old Bailey, and murder charges were dropped.
She was ordered to be detained at a psychiatric hospital.
A preliminary inquest hearing found the two children had been suffocated.
Her husband Jeff found the children lying side by side on the floor of a walk-in wardrobe when he arrived home on 9 May.
'Good mum'A note to the court from Boots was read by her counsel Kate Bex.
It read: "May 9, 2012 is a day I will be eternally sorry for. It should never have happened.
"It troubles me more than anyone will ever know. Part of me will always be missing.
"I am a good person. I am a good mum and I never meant any of this to happen.
"I am truly sorry."
'Indescribably sad'The court heard Boots had been detained at a psychiatric unit since the deaths and the prosecution's decision followed consideration of doctors' reports.
The judge, Mr Justice Fulford, said the case was indescribably sad and what she did was a result of psychological forces beyond her control.
Edward Brown QC, prosecuting, told the court: "This plainly is a tragic case."
He said the Crown had closely examined the medical evidence and spoken to Boots' husband, who was in court.
Mr Brown added: "The authors of the reports are clear and agreed in their conclusions as to Boots' condition as at 9 May and the reasons for her actions on that day."
The couple had moved to the UK in the past few years from Canada.
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