Five-year-old Rebecca and Daniel, 11 months were discovered at Lloret de Mar resort on Tuesday – the same day Smith's husband Martin Smith was extradited to Britain to face child sex abuse charges.
The 43-year-old appeared in court in Spain and in documents released after the hearing the magistrate said she had pleaded guilty to killing both children. She is to be held in prison until attending trial.
"Mrs Smith spontaneously declared that she had killed her two children," magistrate Rafael Fernández said. "She admitted ending their lives by suffocating them after putting a plastic bag over their heads."
A spokeswoman for the Catalan higher judicial council said the magistrate had not asked for her to be sent to a psychiatric ward, adding she had been examined by a doctor shortly after the children's bodies were discovered and had been declared of sound enough mind to give evidence.
Giles Tremlett and Matthew Taylor
guardian.co.uk
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