By Krysia Diver in Stuttgart

The Guardian

A German woman suspected of killing nine newborn babies has admitted the infants were hers, but says she was too drunk to remember giving birth to them.

The woman, identified as Sabine H, was arrested on Sunday after police found the tiny bodies hidden in flowerpots and a sand-filled fish tank in a village close to the Polish border.

Speaking of the killings, believed to have occurred between 1988 and 1999, prosecutor Annette Bargenda said: "The accused woman admitted giving birth to the children but she gave only very vague indications regarding the circumstances of how the children were killed."