‘The justice system has failed my children’ Father of 23-month-old twins killed by their mother slams ‘decision to release her on the fifth anniversary of their deaths’ after she was jailed for 10 years for drowning them in the bath
- Samantha Ford drowned her infant twins Jake and Chloe on Boxing Day 2018
- Father slams ‘cruel’ decision to release her on fifth anniversary of their deaths
The father of infant twins who were drowned in the bath by their mother has slammed a decision to release the killer on the fifth anniversary of their deaths.
Samantha Ford, 41, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after admitting drowning 23-month-old twins Jake and Chloe in the bath at her home in Margate, Kent on Boxing Day 2018.
She then drove her car into the back of a lorry on the A299 in a failed attempt to kill herself.
Her husband Steven Ford, 40, who is still trying to divorce the killer, claimed this morning she is set to be released in December, when she would have spent five years in a psychiatric hospital.
Mr Ford claims her release date will be on Boxing Day, the fifth anniversary of the killings, having not served a ‘single day in prison’.
Samantha Ford, 41, was sentenced to 10 years in custody after admitting drowning 23-month-old twins Jake and Chloe in the bath
Steven Ford tweeted that his estranged wife will be ‘released without serving a single day in prison’
He tweeted: ‘HM Prison and Probation Service have confirmed that on December 26, 2023, this child killer will be released without serving a single day in prison.
‘On the 5th anniversary of their murders, she will be released.
‘I still can’t get my divorce from this evil woman because she holds all the cards.’
Speaking to MailOnline, Mr Ford branded the decision to release Ford on the anniversary of his children’s deaths was ‘cruel and thoughtless’.
He said: ‘It’s cruel, thoughtless, disrespectful, unnecessary yet typical of the injustice throughout.’
Ford was arrested by detectives and charged with her children’s double murder on December 28, 2018.
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Despite Googling ‘how to drown someone’ in the weeks before the crime, Ford escaped a double murder conviction after the Crown Prosecution Service accepted her guilty pleas to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
She was jailed for 10 years, but is currently in Trevor Gibbens psychiatric unit in Maidstone, Kent, until she is deemed fit enough to be moved to a prison.
Mr Ford said he ‘never, at any stage, agreed to accept that this was manslaughter by reasons of diminished responsibility.’
He continued: ‘It was planned, it was threatened, it was murder.
‘The truth was never the goal, the methods of her legal defence was to use the law to meet their objective of securing the lightest sentence possible, rather than focusing on the truth which would have meant life in prison.
‘The justice system has failed my children.’
An inquest into Jake and Chloe’s deaths in January 2021 heard that the couple met in 2007 and after marrying two years later moved to Qatar where the twins were born.
After moving back to the UK in February 2018, Ford told her husband to move out and asked for a divorce in November of that year.
The twins’ father Steven, (pictured with them), announced ‘evil’ Samantha Ford will be released on the fifth anniversary of their death
The inquest heard how when she changed her mind and asked him to return to the marital home, Mr Ford declined, which angered Ford who did not accept the relationship had broken down.
Speaking at the time, the coroner said: ‘She struggled to come to terms with the split.’
On Boxing Day 2018, the twins arrived at their mother’s home at around 11.30am.
Shortly after 6.30pm, she took them upstairs for a bath and held them underwater before clothing them bodies and tucking them into bed.
Ford left a note downstairs which read: ‘Please forgive my crazy mind.’
During her trial in which she denied murder, her actions were described as a ‘twisted act of vengeance’ against her estranged husband.
Judge Andrew Edis told her at the time: ‘You knew it would devastate [your husband] and I’m sure that’s one reason why you did it.’
Mr Ford who last saw his children on Christmas Day 2018, previously lodged a complaint against Ford’s sentence in a bid to get it increased.
But after a review by the Attorney General’s office, it was decided the case would not be heard at the Court of Appeal.
After drowning them, dressing them and placing their bodies in their cots, Ford ploughed her car into the back of a lorry in a failed attempt to kill herself.
Just hours later her estranged husband received a knock on his door from police officers to deliver the devastating news.
In court, the father-of-two said the killings were the ‘most heinous, spiteful act on two innocent children’.
He said: ‘I have no doubt [she] did this with the intention of taking her own life and punishing me in the process.’
HM Prison & Probation Service has been approached for comment.
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