Uber Driver Killed His 2 children By Smothering Them With Petrol-Soaked Rag

An Uber driver killed his two young children by smothering them with a petrol-soaked rag as their mother slept upstairs, a murder trial has heard.

Jurors were told Endris Mohammed carried out the killings during a “sleepover” in the lounge and then fled in his taxi, leaving his wife to discover the lifeless bodies of eight-year-old Saros Endris and his sister Leanor, six.

The court heard Mohammed told a psychiatrist he intended to take his own life and had smothered the children after becoming depressed and deciding they “would be better off dead”.