A 41-year-old woman from Amersfoort has been found not guilty of killing her two babies for a second time.

The babies were found hidden in her home in 2014 after Johanna H turned herself into the police.

She was first found not guilty by a lower court, which ruled the cause of death could not be established and no-one could say for certain if the babies were born dead or alive.

But the Supreme Court later ruled that the case be referred back to the appeal court for second trial.

The babies were born in 2002 and 2004. H hit the babies in a beauty case and a biscuit tin and hid them in her home. Both babies showed stunted growth even though they had been carried almost to term. H had continued to drink heavily, smoke and use drugs through the pregnancies, the court was told.

The public prosecution department had said H should be sent to psychiatric prison.