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THE mum accused of suffocating her kids walked into a police station and said: "I've killed my children", a court heard today.

Fiona Donnison, 45, is accused of murdering Harry, three, and two-year-old Elise after her relationship with their dad broke down.

Donnison allegedly killed the youngsters to hurt ex Paul in the most extreme way possible. She is then said to have put their bodies in the boot of her car.

A neighbourhood support officer told jurors today that Donnison had blood on her palms and a cut on her wrist when she came into Heathfield police station in East Sussex.

Fiona Mepham said Donnison appeared drunk and was swaying from side to side. Ms Mepham told Lewes Crown Court that Donnison said: "I've come to hand myself in."

When asked why, she allegedly said "I've killed my children" with "no emotion, just one tone", Ms Mepham told jurors.

She added that the former City worker then went "floppy" and collapsed in a heap on the floor after turning up on January 27 last year.

The court also heard Donnison had moved out of the family home in Heathfield six months earlier without telling Paul.

Yesterday, Christine Laing QC, prosecuting, said: "This is understandably a complex case particularly in relation to the motive.

"We say that responsibility lies not as a result of any mental illness but we say as a result of her personality."

She said Donnison, who was not married to Paul but had changed her name by deed poll, was a narcissist with an overdeveloped sense of self-importance and entitlement.

The couple, who had met in 1999 when both were married to other people, had a strained relationship, the court heard.

Donnison was also jealous and controlling of her partner and often exhibited highly manipulative behaviour, it was said.

She had enjoyed a successful career in financial services in the City, but was made redundant in July 2009.

Mrs Laing said the two children, described as "delightful, well-mannered and affectionate", were last seen alive on the afternoon of January 26 last year.

It is believed they were likely to have been killed sometime that evening.

Donnison denies two charges of murder.