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<h1><span style="color:#702727;"><em>&#8216;Yes, I could have told you in 2004, so I&#8217;m sorry&#8217;</em></span></h1>
<h2><span style="color:#152d8c;"><strong>Wayne Dunford, 58, backed wife Lesley who said she never killed children<br />
</strong></span><span style="color:#152d8c;"><strong>She was jailed in 2012 for manslaughter of Lucy, 3, but claimed innocence<br />
</strong><strong>In 2014 Mr Dunford wrote to her in prison to say he had found a new love<br />
Wife replied to say she had in fact killed their children and was sorry<br />
</strong></span><span style="color:#152d8c;"><strong>Last week Mrs Dunford admitted murdering son Harley at OId Bailey<br />
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<h4><strong>A mother who killed both her children only confessed to the husband who stood by her for years when he told her he was seeing a new woman, it was revealed today.</strong><br />
<strong>Wayne Dunford, 58, had supported Lesley Dunford, 37, because she insisted she had nothing to do with the deaths of their children Lucy and Harley.</strong><br />
<strong>Dunford, 37, said both children died of natural causes and her husband accepted her story unaware that she had smothered them both to death in 2004.</strong><br />
<strong>Seven-month-old Harley&#8217;s death was first recorded as cot death, but suspicions arose after her daughter Lucy, three, died at the family home in East Sussex six months later.</strong><br />
<strong>In June 2012 Dunford was jailed for seven years for the manslaughter of daughter Lucy and then charged with murder in prison after admitting murdering Harley in a letter to police.</strong></h4>
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<h5 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12550" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/3353727000000578-3547581-image-a-15_1461064512377.jpg" alt="3353727000000578-3547581-image-a-15_1461064512377" width="634" height="413" />Betrayal: Lesley Dunford only told husband Wayne she had killed their children after he told her that he had found love with someone else<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12552" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/3353cab000000578-3547581-image-a-16_1461065845777.jpg" alt="3353cab000000578-3547581-image-a-16_1461065845777" width="634" height="553" />Confession: The letter was in response to telling her he was in love again and said: &#8216;Yes, I could have told you in 2004 but I was scared what your reaction would have been. I am so sorry&#8217;</strong></h5>
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<p>The child killer is now serving a minimum of 13 years in prison after being sentenced for Harley&#8217;s killing at the Old Bailey last week.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Her husband only found out she was responsible after she replied to a letter where he told her he had found love again.<br />
It read: &#8216;Yes, I could have told you in 2004 but I was scared what your reaction would have been. I am so sorry.&#8217;<br />
On his new lover she said: I&#8217;m just frustrated that you did what you did but hey-ho life goes on and I have moved on and will start again when I come out of jail&#8217;.<br />
The devastated father of two, of Exeter, Devon, said: &#8216;When I got the letter I was still talking to Lesley on the phone and writing to her believing she was innocent.<br />
&#8216;I owned up that I was seeing someone else. Her reply to me was the first time she ever admitted what she had done. It was a huge bolt out of the blue.<br />
&#8216;To only find out in a prison letter from Lesley that she had killed one of our children was awful enough. But to hear she murdered our baby as well is totally gut-wrenching.<br />
&#8216;It is not worth wasting my energy over Lesley. She is in a place where she cannot hurt me.<br />
&#8216;I never want to see her again. I have finally signed the divorce papers and have cited what has happened as the reason.&#8217;<br />
He said he had supported his wife even when she was jailed for the manslaughter of three year old daughter Lucy.</p>
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Life together: Wayne Dunford and his wife Lesley on their wedding day, left, and right with their baby Harley, who she would later smother<br />
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Anger: Mr Dunford, pictured at his children&#8217;s graves, said he &#8216;never wants to see&#8217; his wife again</strong></h5>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">She was jailed in 2012 for the killing in 2004 but her husband vowed to stand by her throughout her seven year sentence believing she was innocent.<br />
Their son Harley had also died six months before Lucy but police had said that was the result of a cot death.<br />
The Old Bailey heard how she suffocated her son after &#8216;something clicked&#8217; inside her when he would not stop crying.<br />
In the brutally graphic letter written in prison, she added: &#8216;I went back into the room, walked over to his cot and pushed his face into the mattress until he stopped breathing, then I turned his head back to the side and noticed that he had foamed at the mouth and blood had come out of his nose.<br />
&#8216;That&#8217;s when I knew I had really hurt him and I didn&#8217;t really know why I had done it.&#8217;<br />
Wayne says the scruffy handwritten letter sent to him in 2014 was the first horrific realisation she was involved with the deaths.<br />
Lesley also referred to her &#8216;frustration&#8217; at the end of their marriage.<br />
The letter continued: &#8216;I&#8217;m just frustrated that you did what you did with [the new girlfriend].<br />
&#8216;But hey-ho life goes on and I have moved on and will start again when I come out of jail.&#8217;<br />
She also wrote of her admission: &#8216;No-one is putting words in my mouth.&#8217;</p>
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<h5 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12562" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/3333909300000578-0-image-a-10_1460708163658.jpg" alt="LESLEY DUNFORD LEWES CROWN COURT 29-1-16" width="634" height="511" />Dunford, pictured before a court hearing earlier this year, was jailed for seven years for the manslaughter of daughter Lucy and was jailed for a minimum of 13 years last week for killing son Harley</strong></h5>
<h5 class="imageCaption"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12565" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/333390a000000578-3541501-image-a-23_1460717881232.jpg" alt="333390a000000578-3541501-image-a-23_1460717881232" width="634" height="447" />Dunford, pictured during her initial police interview in 2004, wrote a confession to the murder of her son while in prison for the manslaughter of her daughter, the Old Bailey heard</strong></h5>
<p>Then, after several months with no contact, Wayne got a letter from a social worker to say Lesley had been moved to a psychiatric hospital in Wales.</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font"><span class="mol-style-italic">The Old Bailey heard police re-opened the case of Harley&#8217;s murder after Dunford confessed, both verbally and in writing, to killing him to prison staff at Drake&#8217;s Hall in Staffordshire. She drafted a handwritten confession after verbally admitting she killed both children in their home in East Sussex.<br />
After her arrest she refused to comment to police during an interview but a forensic analysis of her handwriting showed it was her who wrote the confession.<br />
The confession stated: &#8216;I remember the day very clearly, the time I put Harley back to bed at 9am, after I had given him his breakfast. I was settling him down in his cot. I put him on his tummy and put his dummy in.<br />
&#8216;But then something clicked in my head and I went back into the room walked over to his cot and pushed his face into the mattress until he stopped breathing.<br />
&#8216;And then I put his head to the side and noticed there was blood and foam coming out of his nose. That&#8217;s when I knew I had hurt him and I don&#8217;t know why I had done it.&#8217;<br />
-She went on: &#8216;Even though we had a death certificate I know I contributed to his death because I relive it every day.&#8217;<br />
The court heard Dunford told a support worker: &#8216;They told me he died from some respiratory problem, but he didn&#8217;t. I killed him. &#8216;He had blood coming out of his mouth and nose but Lucy hadn&#8217;t.&#8217;<br />
The prosecution also told the court Dunford had made admissions about Lucy&#8217;s death, including hitting her head against a headboard and then suffocating her. </span></p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">They ended up speaking on the phone and she told her husband she was going to go to the police to confess to Harley&#8217;s murder.<br />
The court heard she had pushing his face into his cot mattress when she couldn&#8217;t stop him crying.<br />
Recalling the later phone call, he added: &#8216;She told me she was going to have the police visiting her soon to talk about something else.<br />
&#8216;I did not want to ask too much &#8211; as I was scared of what she might say. But I did ask if it was about Harley and she confirmed it was.<br />
&#8216;I put two and two together though and realised she must have come clean about what happened.<br />
&#8216;I feel awful about it all. I was out there convincing people that Lesley had not done anything for so long but that was truly what I believed.<br />
&#8216;I just never thought she was capable of anything like that. She was just a good liar &#8211; and kept up the lie for over ten years.&#8217;<br />
Wayne said they had a normal marriage and enjoyed going to the park and beach and they had helped each other get over their double heartbreak.<br />
He said: &#8216;If I had any whiff, however much I loved her, that she had killed our daughters I would have been the first to go to the police.<br />
&#8216;We grieved for them together and we cried for them together.<br />
&#8216;It is bad enough I have lost two children &#8211; but I have also lost my wife and everything I believed about the last 13 years turned out to be lies.<br />
&#8216;I am now finalising the divorce, what we have now is not a marriage.&#8217;<br />
Recalling the two children, Wayne said: &#8216;Lucy was a lovely little kid and I have great memories of going down to the beach with her.<br />
&#8216;Harley was only a very little baby so my memories of him are not much at all.<br />
He had his whole life in front of him &#8211; as did Lucy.&#8217;</p>
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<strong>Pictured: Dunford was charged with murdering Harley while in jail for the manslaughter of daughter Lucy in a confession letter how she killed her son</strong></h5>
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&#8216;I know what I have done is very wrong and I deserve to be punished for it&#8217;, wrote Dunford in the letter</h5>
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