'Listen to their screams' - Woman calls husband as she burnt their three daughters alive

A mother of four who was high on drugs, locked three of her daughters in a shed and set them on fire alive while her husband was forced to listen at the end of a phone reports UK Mirror.

Thioro Mbow telephoned her husband on his cellphone and said: "Listen to their screams..." as his 3 precious children perished in the flames.

The Husband-Hellmut Ulin, 38, a foreman working at a building site 12 miles away, listened in horror as his African wife went on: "I can hear their screams but I will do nothing to save them.

"You'd better hurry but you will be too late to rescue them. They won't survive."

The 35-year-old mother, who had earlier received a legal letter from her husband's lawyer requesting the custody of the children, went on: "I will never surrender my children to you."

The children's father jumped into his car and drove back to his home in Lennik, a small town near Brussels, Belgium, while phoning his sister who lives nearby to hurry round to the house.

But it was too late to save his daughters Omy, two, Abbygail, four, and Madyson, six when he got there.

All he found were their charred and lifeless bodies of his daughters with their mother standing near the still smoking garden shed: "Ten minutes of screaming and then it was all over," she said calmly.

The only surviving child was an elder daughter, nine-year-old Dyarra - a child from the mother's previous relationship - who was at school.

Neighbours mentioned to police that the mother had alcohol and drug problems and spent most of her day in bed without looking after the children.

They further said they heard the couple arguing and shouting.

Her deeply traumatized husband said: "I had the letter sent by a court bailiff. I wanted to give her a fright.

"I didn't want her to go. I just wanted her to stop drinking and taking pills."

A Family friend Viviane van Eeckhoudt, who went with the sister to the scene said: "There was no chance to save the little ones.

"The shed was stuffed with paper and the flames were so fierce. It was a horrible death.

"We saw the mother at the scene. There were no tears in her eyes and she did not seem to be in a panic."

Said former court psychiatrist Johan Baeke: "It's impossible to fathom how a mother can burn her children alive.

"She must have been under a deep depression."