Woman killed her children and stabbed husband after ‘erupting’ in rage, jury told

Elizabeth and Ethan John, who were killed in June last year. Photograph: Staffordshire police

A woman “erupted” into violence and killed her two children before stabbing her husband and telling police she wanted the death penalty, a jury has been told.

Veronique John, 50, who has been deemed unfit to plead, stabbed her children aged seven and 11 because she did not want her husband to take them from her, a trial of the facts heard.