Mother, 27, killed her daughters, 18 months and three, with an overdose of methadone before killing herself because she thought she'd brought them into a corrupt world, inquest hears
Tiffany Stevens and her daughers, one and three, had been discovered useless in 2019 (Image: MEN Media)

A 27-year-old mom killed her two toddler daughters earlier than taking her personal life to spare them from rising up in a ‘corrupt world’, an inquest has heard.

Tiffany Stevens was mentioned to have change into obsessive about conspiracy theories and believed hurt would come to her women, one-year-old Darcey and three-year-old Casey-Lea Taylor, in the event that they ended up in social care.

Tiffany’s brother and ex-partner discovered the three useless at her dwelling in Bolton in January 2019, surrounded by discarded syringes and empty tablet packets.

A postmortem revealed Darcey had suffered from mind swelling and pneumonia after being fed a deadly dose of ache aid treatment.

Medical doctors discovered very excessive ranges of two medicine in Casey-Lea’s system, together with treatment utilized by Ms Stevens’ grandmother, Bobby-Jo Stevens, which she believes had been taken from her dwelling.

A coroner in Bolton dominated Tiffany had killed the women by giving them the substances earlier than consuming a cocktail of medication which precipitated her respiratory to gradual and ultimately stopped her coronary heart.

Talking on the inquest, Bobby-Jo mentioned her granddaughter ‘spent an excessive amount of time doing analysis on dangerous issues and corrupt folks in life, the police and social companies.

She added: ‘[Tiffany] requested if I might sew microphones into Casey-Lea’s costume so she might hear what academics had been saying to her at nursery.

Tiffany had suffered from paranoia for almost a decade, the coroner heard (Image: MEN Media)

‘She mentioned she wished to get me and the opposite youngsters collectively, kill
us all and take her personal life. That was a couple of years in the past.

‘She was very, very paranoid. She simply thought the world was corrupt and dangerous and irrespective of how a lot you tried to purpose along with her, it was only a dangerous world.

‘She was poorly, that’s why she did it. That’s all I can say. She
wasn’t in the best thoughts.’

Bolton Coroner’s Courtroom heard Tiffany had a ‘tough and difficult’ unbringing which noticed her taken into care at 11 years of age, later affected by suicidal ideas and paranoia.

The coroner dominated the 27-year-old had killed her daughters unlawfully (Image: MEN Media)

Additional proof from her telephone discovered she spent a lot of her time Googling conspiracy theories by the age of 18, and wrote notes describing the world as ‘corrupt’.

Simply weeks earlier than the tragedy, the 27-year-old had dedicated to a ‘suicide pact’ with a buddy in a close-by resort.

However the buddy pulled out of the pact when she noticed Tiffany had introduced her youngsters as that ‘had not been a part of the settlement’.


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