“Opening the door was opening the door to a nightmare. My first thought was, “where are my children?” He then told me. I started screaming.” The time was 8.40am and the Byron Bay mum wasn’t expecting ...

Twins Ophelia and Tarrow died from smoke inhalation after a fire broke out in the room where they were sleeping at a “multi-occupancy commune” in Goonengerry on November 7. NSW Ambulance paramedics ...

The mother of four-year-old girls who died in a house fire on a commune near Byron Bay has expressed her devastation at losing her daughters. Akira Garton, who has been left devastated at the deaths ...

The mother of twin girls killed in a fire near Byron says the pain of losing her four-year-olds is “too much to bear.” Speaking for the first time of the agony at learning how Ophelia and Tarrow, four ...

Ophelia and Tarrow were killed after a fire broke out in their bedroom in the early hours of the morning in Goonengerry at one of 20 homes in a Byron Bay hinterland commune. Emergency services were ...

Akira Garton has broken her silence after her twins, Ophelia and Tarrow, suffocated from toxic smoke inside a one-storey house at a commune in Goonengerry shortly after 4am on Sunday morning. Speaking ...