By Terri-ann Williams For Mailonline
Published: 13:14 GMT, 7 March 2019 | Updated: 13:32 GMT, 7 March 2019
A mother 'researched suicide methods online and then drowned her three-year-old daughter in the bath after becoming paranoid that her husband was having an affair'.
Claire Colebourn today sobbed in the dock at Winchester Crown Court as the prosecutor told how she thought her husband Michael, a company director, was having an affair with a work colleague.
The 36-year-old searched suicide methods shortly before allegedly drowning little Bethan in the early hours of the morning at their £400,000 family home in Hampshire.
She appeared before a High Court judge today as prosecutor Kerry Maylin opened the case involving the murder of Bethan.
Bethan (pictured above) was described as a 'fun-loving' little girl by her family
Claire Colebourn believed that her husband Michael Colebourn (pictured above) was having an affair
Police at the scene in Fordingbridge after Claire Colebourn 'drowned her daughter Bethan'
Bethan was rushed to Salisbury District Hospital, Wiltshire, on October 19 last year, after emergency services were called to the converted bungalow in Fordingbridge.
However, the 'fun-loving, adventurous' little
