mother accused of murdering her two children in a Spanish hotel is on suicide watch

A mother accused of murdering her two children in a Spanish hotel is on suicide watch after her partner was convicted of child sex offences.

Lianne Smith claims she was protecting her children from social services

Lianne Smith, 44, was placed under 24-hour supervision at a hospital unit in prison in Spain after she threatened to take her own life.
She was moved to a specialist observation room after being told her partner, 45-year-old TV psychic Martin Smith, had been found guilty of abusing a girl over a 10- year period.
She has confessed on a number of occasions to murdering their daughter Rebecca, five, and son Daniel, 11 months, in a Costa Brava resort in May.
She claims she killed them to prevent social services taking them into care.
Lianne Smith has always insisted her partner is innocent and said in an interview earlier this week she would kill herself if he was convicted.

Martin Smith was found guilty of 11 child sex offences

She is being held at Girona prison, in northeast Spain, after confessing to an investigating magistrate that she smothered her two children to death with a plastic bag in a room at the Miramar hotel in the seaside resort of Lloret de Mar.
A prison source said: "Smith was moved to a specialist observation cell in the prison's hospital unit because there are fears she will attempt to kill herself.
"She was moved when she was told her husband had been convicted in the UK."
Lianne and Martin Smith, who share a surname but are not married, fled the UK in November 2007 after he was arrested over the child sex allegations.
They lived as fugitives in Barcelona until he was arrested by Spanish police on May 7 this year.
Lianne Smith has admitted killing her children after her partner's arrest.
She was remanded in custody on May 21 by investigating magistrate Rafael Fernandez Santiago who sent her to a normal prison rather than a psychiatric unit after studying medical reports.
She said in an interview from Girona prison this week: "I couldn't let the children be taken away from me knowing what their life would be like.
"Children in care have no chance. I had to protect them."