A heartbroken father has spoken of his last moments with his miracle baby twins on Christmas day before they were drowned in the bath by their depressed mum because she was “angry” at him.

Samantha Ford, 38, killed 23-month-old Jake and Chloe on Boxing Day in Margate Kent last year after their dad Steven Ford left her.

She then tried to kill herself when she crashed her car into the back of a lorry at 100mph, later telling police: "I've killed my babies. Please let me die."

She was jailed for 10 years at the Old Bailey in London, which heard how Ford was in the grip of acute depression when the twins' bodies were found at a house in Margate, Kent, on December 27.

Mr Ford says beaming smile appeared on Jake's face as he tore the wrapping paper off a new toy dinosaur on Christmas Day, as Chloe lay asleep in a bouncer next to a tree.

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He said after the magical day with his kids he then gave his estranged wife custody, despite her fragile mental state, because he believed "a mother should see her children over the festive period".

After drowning the twins in the bath at her Margate home on Boxing Day, she dressed them and placed their bodies in cots.

She then ploughed her car into the back of a lorry on the A299 Thanet Way in a failed attempt to kill herself.

At 8.30am on December 27, Mr Ford, received a knock on his door from police officers who told him the devastating news that his children were dead.

Nine months on since the tragedy, he is still struggling to come to terms with what has happened, and feels like the tragedy only happened three weeks ago.

He said: “I don’t know how I live with it.

“How I feel changes every day. Trying to come to terms with something like this – there’s not a book, there’s not any advice, there’s nothing that anyone can say or do that will make me feel any better.

“It’s me that’s got to make this right, it’s me that’s got to deal with this, and me that’s got to get through it.”

Steven said even though he 'knew her better than anyone on this planet', he 'didn’t see this coming'.

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He says the tragedy has made him realise he was a victim of “emotional abuse” at the hands of Ford, adding it had happened for a "very long time" and became "the norm".

The couple were living in Quatar when the twins were born after four attempts at IVF.

While in the country, Steven was club captain at Doha Golf Club and managing director of an infrastructure support company.

But they then moved to Charing in Kent last year, sparking fury from Samantha.

The court heard how she was angry at having left her affluent lifestyle and was said to be trying to pressure her husband into returning to the Middle East.

Ford escaped a double murder conviction after the Crown Prosecution Service accepted her guilty pleas to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

She is currently in a psychiatric hospital until she is deemed fit enough to be moved to a prison.

At the Old Bailey, Ford was accused of being controlling, a narcissist and fixated on making sure Steven is now suffering.

And her grieving estranged husband now says the tragedy has made him realise he was a victim of “emotional abuse” at the hands of Ford, adding it had happened for a "very long time" and became "the norm".

He said Ford was "a very practical mother" and that "everything was regimented, without much emotion"

He went on to say he "didn’t really understand what narcissism was until all of this happened".

Ford was accused of being controlling, a narcissist and fixated on making sure Steven is now suffering, the court heard during her trial.

Mr Ford feels like she has got away with murder and is calling for a change in the law.

He appealed to the Prime Minister to make sentences tougher.

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A bid for a review of Ford's sentence in the Court of Appeal was made following complaints of the “lenient” sentence, including one from Steven.

This month the appeal was turned down by the Attorney General.

A frustrated Mr Ford said “even when the hard facts point to premeditated murder", the "laws surrounding diminished responsibility have prevented justice from being served".

He added that the law was “too broad, too vague and needed to change".

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