Two Babies Found Dead In Wandsworth

Canadian born mother is arrested at Killarney Road

A woman in her thirties is currently being help in custody after the bodies of two small children were found at a house in Wandsworth earlier this week.

Police were called to an address in Killarney Road, SW18 at 7.25pm on Wednesday 9th May.

The London Ambulance Service also attended but a 10 week old boy and a 14-month-old girl believed to be named Lily Sky Boots, were pronounced dead at the scene.

Their mother, Canadian born Felicia Boots was arrested on suspicion of murder. She is currently in custody at a south London police station. 

Mrs Boots, who is in her 30s and is a trained hairdresser,but recently started a jewelry company.  The couple had been busy completing removal from a nearby penthouse apartment in the weeks before the deaths.  Both Mr Boots, an investment banker, and his wife are understood to have moved to the UK in the last few years from Canada. 

Detectives from the Child Abuse Investigation Command are leading the investigation, and inquiries continue into the full circumstances of the incident.

May 11, 2012