A woman who killed her three children in an apartment in the Suvela district of Espoo last August has been sentenced to life imprisonment on three counts of murder.
Additionally, she was ordered to pay EUR 45,000 to the father of the three children for suffering caused by her actions, and a further EUR 12,000 to the state in court costs.
Taiwanese-bornYu-Hsiu Fu, 41, killed her eight-year-old twin girls and her son of less than two years by strangling them with the cloth belt of a dressing-gown.
Prior to the killing, she had drugged the children in the evening by giving them a glass of milk spiked with sleeping tablets.
The woman confessed to the crimes.
According to the results of a psychiatric examination, she was of sound mind at the time of the killings.
The defence had pleaded diminished capacity and had called for a manslaughter verdict.
In the course of the trial it was revealed that the tragic killings had been preceded by a heavy divorce process, on top of which the woman had had an ongoing dispute with her Finnish ex-husband over custody of the children.
She will serve her sentence in Vantaa Prison.
