Adam Arnold, Sky News Online<\/p>\n
Lianne Smith, 43, has admitted asphyxiating Rebecca, five, and her 11-month-old brother Daniel with a plastic bag and is in prison on suspicion of murder.<\/p>\n
She said she had been worried that the authorities would take them away, after her husband and the children’s father Martin Smith, 45, was arrested over alleged child sex offences.<\/p>\n
Mrs Smith will not be attending the funeral in the seaside resort town of Lloret de Mar where the youngsters were found dead.<\/p>\n
Their mother is currently in jail in Girona and was not released temporarily to go to the service on the Costa Brava.<\/p>\n
The children’s bodies were discovered at the Hotel Miramar on May 18. The funeral was held in Sant Roma church.<\/p>\n
The 16th century Gothic chapel was filled with white flowers and prayers were read at the ceremony, which lasted about half an hour.<\/p>\n
Representatives of the town’s civic administration were present along with British consular officials.<\/p>\n
The children were buried in the local cemetery afterwards.<\/p>\n
The priest who conducted the ceremony and did not want to be named described it as “moving”.<\/p>\n
It was a private affair “to show respect for the children”, he added.<\/p>\n
The Smith family fled the UK in 2007 after Mr Smith, originally from North Shields, was arrested.<\/p>\n
He allegedly jumped bail while facing charges of rape of a child under 16, gross indecency with a girl under 16, indecent assault of a girl under 16 and attempted rape of a girl under 16.<\/p>\n
Mr Smith had been one of Britain’s most wanted men until Spanish police tracked him down and detained him last month.<\/p>\n
Rebecca and Daniel Smith died around the time their father was then extradited to Britain.<\/p>\n
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