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		</div><p>A mother in England accused of murdering her three-year-old daughter said she drowned her in the bath to &#8220;save her&#8221; after separating from her executive husband who she feared was having an affair, a court has heard.</p>
<p>Claire Colebourn is accused of drowning Bethan at their home in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, in southern England after the 36-year-old split with husband, Michael, the CEO of luxury marine interior company Trimline.</p>
<p>Kerry Maylin, prosecuting, told Winchester Crown Court Bethan was found by her grandmother, Janet Fildew, when she arrived for a visit to the family home in Whitsbury Road on October 19 2017.</p>
<p>The lawyer said: &#8220;Bethan was three-years-old, she was a much-loved daughter of Claire and Michael Colebourn, but she was found dead at her home.</p>
<p>&#8220;Claire Colebourn, when Bethan was found, was also in the house and she was at the time suffering a diabetic episode.</p>
<p>&#8220;Bethan died because she had been put in the bath at home and held under the water, the act was completed by her mother.&#8221;</p>
<p>Miss Maylin said that in a nine-and-a-half-hour period that day, Colebourn had administered a dosage of insulin 10 times that she would normally use in a whole day.</p>
<p>The prosecutor said that just over a month before Bethan&#8217;s death, Colebourn and her husband, who had been together for 16 years and married for six years, separated and Mr Colebourn had moved out.</p>
<p>Miss Maylin said their relationship had been difficult and the defendant went on to make &#8220;unfounded accusations&#8221; on Facebook and an email sent to his work, that her husband was having an affair with the company&#8217;s finance director Kelly Futcher.</p>
<p>In the email to Trimline, she wrote: &#8220;He has been having an affair with his finance director at work, everything has been pre-</p>
<p>planned, of course the finances.</p>
<p>&#8220;They are aiming to take over the business and set up a new life together.&#8221;</p>
<p>Miss Maylin said Colebourn also told friends she had visited Ms Futcher&#8217;s home looking for her husband&#8217;s car.</p>
<p>The lawyer said Colebourn also became worried, without foundation, that Mr Colebourn was monitoring her computer and arranged for an IT firm to supply her with a new laptop and wifi at her home.</p>
<blockquote><p>She said that within minutes of receiving the new computer in October, she began searches for suicide-related websites and another website called How To Kill By Drowning, as well as watching a YouTube video titled Someone Drowns In A Tub Nearly Every Day.</p></blockquote>
<p>On the day before Bethan&#8217;s death, Colebourn also wrote a letter to her mother saying: &#8220;I love you, Bethan loves you, thanks for everything. Please make sure Walter (horse) and Charlie (dog) are looked after. Love always, Claire.&#8221;</p>
<p>She added: &#8220;Please make sure I am buried with Bethan in Fordingbridge.&#8221;</p>
<p>Miss Maylin said that following her arrest, she told medical staff she had tried to kill herself the previous day.</p>
<p>The prosecutor said a doctor described how she was &#8220;only emotional when discussing the fact Michael Colebourn had left her and her daughter and her father had done the same to her mother&#8221;.</p>
<p>She later wrote in a letter intercepted at a hospital she was staying in: &#8220;In my eyes I saved her, everything over those days is a blur.&#8221;</p>
<p>She later told police: &#8220;I am responsible for Bethan&#8217;s death because she drowned and I am responsible for it. Bethan drowned because I was there, I held her under the water.&#8221;</p>
<p>She also made accusations that her husband had been &#8220;controlling and a bully&#8221;.</p>
<p>Miss Maylin said the last time Mr Colebourn saw his daughter alive was when he took her to a soft play centre on October 15 and said: &#8220;He and Bethan had a nice afternoon and when he left she hugged and kissed her father goodbye.&#8221;</p>
<p>Colebourn denies murder and the trial continues.</p>
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