Sharon Dalson, mother who killed children, sent to Rampton
- Title
- Sharon Dalson, mother who killed children, sent to Rampton
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 4 Jan 1994
- Year of production
- 1994
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- Duration
- 00:04:48
- Description
- Tim Crook reports from the Old Bailey in London after a mother was sent to Rampton secure hospital for life after admitting the manslaughter of her two young children. Twenty-four year-old Sharon Dalson from Maple Close, Tottenham, strangled her six year-old son Jason and suffocated her five year-old daughter Natalia. Both children were on the At Risk Register of Haringey Council and neighbours had complained about her children screaming in terror in the days leading up to their deaths. Includes precis of evidence of prosecutor, Martin Heslop; interview with Detective Inspector Andrew Hewitt. Broadcast on LBC Drivetime programme.
- Contributors
- Tim Crook; Andrew Hewitt
- Keywords
- London; Crime; UK; Great Britain; Psychiatric hospitals; Children (age group); Child abuse; Children (family); England; Rampton Secure Hospital; Trials; Manslaughter; Sentencing; Tottenham; Sharon Dalson; Jason Dalson; Natalia Dalson
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