Kimberlee Singler: Colorado girl extradited from UK to US to face fees of murdering her two youngsters | EUROtoday

A Colorado girl suspected of killing two of her younger youngsters has been extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States to face fees.

Kimberlee Singler was arrested in London in December 2023.

That got here simply over every week after her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son have been discovered useless of their house in Colorado Springs. Her 11-year-old daughter was injured however survived.

The lady instructed an investigator that her mom mentioned that God made her do it, in line with courtroom paperwork within the UK.

Singler, who had superficial knife wounds, instructed police {that a} man who entered the condominium was chargeable for the assault. She was initially thought of a sufferer.

Her surviving daughter backed up Singler’s declare at first, however police sought to arrest Singler on 26 December 2023 after they mentioned the lady modified her story.

By then, Singler was gone. She was discovered 4 days later in London’s upscale Chelsea neighborhood and arrested. It will not be identified why she ended up there.

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Singler, 37, fought extradition and denied attacking her youngsters. Her London defence legal professional, Edward Fitzgerald, argued that Singler shouldn’t be extradited as a result of if convicted of first-degree homicide in Colorado, she would face a compulsory sentence of life with out parole — a sentence that violates European human rights regulation.

Fitzgerald represented Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in his lengthy struggle in opposition to extradition to face espionage fees within the US.

Singler doesn’t but have a US-based legal professional listed as representing her in courtroom paperwork, in line with the courtroom clerk’s workplace.

A choose rejected Singler’s problem in January 2025, and her bid for an attraction was rejected in November.

Singler has been charged with two counts of first-degree homicide within the deaths of the 2 youngsters. The household had been staying with Singler’s mom throughout the custody battle, however the mom was away on the time, in line with courtroom paperwork within the U.Okay.

Singler additionally faces one depend of tried homicide, three counts of kid abuse and one depend of assault.

According to UK courtroom paperwork, the kids’s our bodies have been discovered by police shortly after midnight on 19 December 2023.

Police mentioned they discovered no footprints within the snow resulting in a patio the place Singler mentioned an intruder entered by way of an unlocked door and attacked her, inflicting her to lose consciousness.

She instructed police that her ex-husband “had previously dreamt about killing his family, that the children’s father was always trying to ‘frame her’ and ‘get her arrested’ and to have the kids taken away from her,” Judge John Zani mentioned in a January ruling in opposition to Singler in Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

Police mentioned GPS data confirmed that her ex-husband was driving a truck on the time of the killings about 80 miles (130 kilometers) away.

The day earlier than the our bodies of the kids have been discovered, a choose in Colorado ordered Singler to adjust to a earlier order to permit the daddy to take custody of them for the vacations, in line with state courtroom data.

She was instructed to both give the kids to her ex-husband on her personal or deliver them to a 20 December 2023 courtroom listening to to change custody of them there.

On the day of the listening to, Singler requested the choose to delay it, writing in a movement that she and her youngsters had been attacked and that two of the kids have been murdered. She requested for time to grieve the lack of her youngsters and “gain my bearings after this incident.”