Oh my God, my beautiful babies, they have gone: Father's desperate cries as he finds wife with their smothered children at £1.2m home they moved into 10 days ago

Jeff Boots desperately tried to save his ten-week-old son and 14-month-old daughter Lily Skye

The children were pronounced dead at the scene when emergency services arrived at the semi-detached house in an affluent part of London

His wife, Felicia was arrested at the family home

Detectives are understood to be looking at the possibility that former hair stylist Mrs Boots is suffering from post-natal depression

A father returned from work to find his two young children had been smothered to death and his wife had apparently tried to slit her wrists.

Neighbours heard investment banker Jeff Boots, 34, cry ‘Oh my God, oh my God’ as he desperately tried to save his ten-week-old son and 14-month-old daughter Lily Skye.

He was later heard wailing: ‘My lovely son, my beautiful daughter. They have gone. Help me, help me, help me.’



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Family tragedy: Jeff Boots returned home last night to discover that his two children had been killed. His wife Felicia (pictured) has been arrested

Murder probe: Police on the scene today after a ten-week-old boy and a one-year-old girl were discovered dead

The children were pronounced dead at the scene when emergency services arrived at the £1.2million semi-detached house in an affluent part of Wandsworth, south London.

His wife, Felicia, also 34, was arrested at the family home. She had apparently tried to harm herself but did not need hospital treatment.

Mrs Boots, a jewellery designer who runs a website called Pink Tangerine, was being questioned by detectives from Child Abuse Investigation Command yesterday.

They are understood to be looking at the possibility that former hair stylist Mrs Boots is suffering from post-natal depression.

The couple, originally from Canada, had moved into the three-storey, five-bedroom house near Wandsworth Common only two weeks ago. The home is in a part of south London nicknamed ‘nappy valley’ because of its popularity with rich young professionals starting families.

One neighbour described them as appearing to be ‘a typical middle class couple’.



Tragedy: Mason Boots, just after he was was born on February 28. An inquest heard today he was suffocated

Family tragedy: Jeff Boots, who is understood to be an investment banker, with his wife Felicia who is being held over the deaths of their two children in Wandsworth, south London

Cordon: The property in Wandsworth, south London, where the children were found dead

Another neighbour, who asked not to be named, said she heard Mr Boots’s reaction when he came home on Wednesday evening.

She said: ‘I could hear a man screaming: “Oh my God, oh my God”. He then shouted: “I loved my son and I loved my daughter”.

‘His voice was wailing: “My lovely son, my beautiful daughter. They have gone”. Then he said: “Help me, help me, help me”.

‘I thought his wife should come and help him, but I heard nothing from his wife.

‘Then he shouted: “I love my family. I love my children”.

‘It was like a mantra which went on for a while. It was shocking when the police arrived and we realised how serious it was.’

Neither of the children had any visible injuries and it is believed they may have been smothered.

Oliver Jones, 27, a business consultant who lives opposite, said: ‘I arrived home when the first police car arrived and he was in floods of tears. The police were here from about 7.30 to about 9.30. The wife was led out to the police car. She seemed very calm and placid.’

Mr and Mrs Boots had previously spent five years renting a £2,100-a-month penthouse in an apartment block nearby.



Mrs Boots worked as a hair stylist in Canada but turned to creating her own jewellery from her home-based studio under the name Pink Tangerine after moving to London.

Tragedy: Lily Boots, 14-months-old, who suffocated in the family home in Wandsworth, south London

Arrest: Felicia Boots who is being questioned by police in connection with the deaths of her two children

Forensic investigation: A forensic officer walks into the property in Wandsworth where the two young children were found dead as two police officers stand guard outside

Accused: Felicia Boots, aged in her 30s, was today being held in connection with the deaths of her two children

On her website it says: ‘A Canadian-born stylist is pursuing a dream.’

Her Facebook page has pictures of her on holiday with her husband. She comments on one picture of herself: ‘New doggy, yoga every day and 11-week-old Lily in my belly – a trip Boots and I won’t forget.’

Police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.