Paramedics reported they were “cold, blue and lifeless” and had signs of rigor mortis when they arrived.<\/p>\n
The twins were born several weeks early and required specialist care, including ventilation in hospital for a number of months.<\/p>\n
After they were discharged, they still required oxygen tanks, and a nurse attended their family home for daily checks for the first week.<\/p>\n
Following this, a nurse did weekly check-ins, including up until the days before they both died, and they were reported to be doing well.<\/p>\n
On the day before they died, their parents told police they had smoked cannabis about 5pm.<\/p>\n
They told police the twins were fed, and their oxygen tanks were changed at 9pm.<\/p>\n
They reported both babies woke a few times between 10pm and midnight but were able to be settled with dummies.<\/p>\n
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The baby boys slept in separate cots at the time of their death, the court was told. File photo. (ABC News: Gregor Salmon)<\/p>\n
Both parents reported falling asleep between midnight and 2am, with the father falling asleep last, and waking up first, before finding his children unresponsive.<\/p>\n
Counsel assisting the coroner Laura Reece KC told the court a forensic examination of a mobile phone shared by both parents would form part of the evidence at the inquest.<\/p>\n
“That evidence will show that the phone was in use between 11:56pm \u2026 and 5:54am,” she said.<\/p>\n
“The examination of that telephone also identified the possible use of a flashlight function at about 2:23am.”<\/p>\n