A German court has sentenced a woman to life in jail for killing five of her six children last year.
The 28-year-old mother, identified only as Christiane K, was found guilty of killing the children who died in September 2020.
The bodies of her three daughters - aged one, two and three - and two sons - aged six and eight - were found at the family flat in the city of Solingen in North Rhine-Westphalia state.
The woman then attempted to take her own life, but she was saved and did not suffer life-threatening injuries.
Her sixth child, a boy who was 11 at the time, survived the ordeal because he was in school.
Prosecutors alleged that the mother mixed medication into the children's breakfast drinks to make them sleepy, before killing them.
They had sought a life term for the "malicious murders", saying Christiane K had taken advantage of her children's innocence and defencelessness.
Judges at the court in Wuppertal in western Germany said the woman would not be eligible for parole for 15 years.
Prosecutors said Christiane K acted out of anger after seeing a photo of her estranged husband with a new girlfriend.
She told him in an online chat that he would never see his children again, according to prosecutors.
Christiane K had insisted she was innocent and said a masked man entered the flat and killed the children.
But investigators found no evidence to support the claim, and judges dismissed the defence's request for an acquittal.
Court-appointed psychological experts determined that the accused could be held criminally responsible for her actions.
