A London court has ruled that Kimberlee Singler, an American woman of 36 who is accused of murdering two of her children and attempting to kill a third, can be extradited to the United States.
Singler is charged with seven counts, which include first-degree murder in the alleged killings of her nine-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son in December 2023. Prosecutors said she killed the two small children in their home, shooting each child in the head and stabbing them in the neck in a murder-suicide apparently linked to a bitter custody battle with an ex-partner.
She is also charged with the attempted murder of her third child, who is an 11-year-old girl, and survived the alleged assault. Singler denies all charges.
Yesterday, Judge John Zani dismissed Singler’s extradition appeal, which argued that a mandatory life sentence without parole would amount to a breach of her human rights.
During a previous hearing in September, US prosecutors said that Singler had previously blamed an unknown man and had pointed suspicion to her former partner, something they said could be easily disproven. The lawyer for Singler, Edward Fitzgerald, argued that the statement given by one of her surviving child may not have been an actual voluntary statement.
During Friday’s court hearing, Singler was informed that Judge Zani said, “The case now passes to the Secretary of State for a decision on whether extradition will be ordered. Should the Secretary of State approve, you have the right to appeal to the High Court.”
The verdict moves Singler closer to a Colorado trial that will turn up the heat on the case because of its descriptive and sensational details, as well as the theory behind the commission of the crimes.
