Colorado mother accused of drugging and killing two of her kids could be extradited from U.Okay., court docket guidelines

LONDON — Kimberlee Singler, the Colorado mother who’s accused of drugging after which killing two of her kids earlier than fleeing to the UK, has been informed by a British court docket that she could be extradited again dwelling to face trial.

Singler watched silently and with out emotion throughout a quick listening to at Westminster Magistrates Courtroom in central London on Friday, the place her problem to a U.S. extradition order was rejected by District Decide John Zani.

Nonetheless, the case will now be thought of by the British dwelling secretary, Yvette Cooper, who has the ultimate say on some high-profile extradition circumstances.

And Singler intends to attraction the choice the British Supreme Courtroom after which presumably on the European Courtroom of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, additional delaying her return. She faces life in jail upon a profitable conviction.

Singler, 36, was arrested in London on Dec. 30, 2023 days after the lifeless our bodies of her kids, aged 7 and 9, had been discovered at her dwelling in Colorado Springs.

She is accused of fatally taking pictures and stabbing them, in addition to injuring a 3rd little one who survived and informed police of their ordeal, and has been charged in absentia of seven counts, embrace two first diploma homicide fees.

Singler’s authorized staff had been resisting extradition on the idea that she denies the fees and that she would face a life sentence with no probability of parole, one thing judged to be merciless and strange punishment in response to European human rights regulation.

Article 3 of the European Conference on Human Rights — a legally binding statute adopted by 46 nations, together with the U.Okay. — prohibits “inhuman or degrading remedy or punishment.”

Westminster Magistrates Courtroom has heard graphic element of her alleged crimes in a sequence of hearings over the previous yr, wherein Singler’s lawyer sparred with the U.Okay. authorities’s lawyer over the legality of her extradition.

Edward Fitzgerald, Singler’s lawyer, stated she was “coping very nicely” in jail, the place she stays in the interim.