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The mother of the critically injured Kahui twins walked into the hospital, "swinging" them in their baby capsules and appeared "elated", a High Court jury has heard.
Claire Dillon, a former nurse at Kids First Hospital in Manukau, told the High Court at Auckland she saw the twins' mother, Macsyna King, swinging the car seat capsules as she walked down a corridor towards the emergency department.
Ms Dillon was giving evidence at the murder trial of the babies' father, Chris Kahui this morning.
The Crown alleges Kahui was the only one who could have hurt the twins. The defence case is that other people had time to commit the crime, and it was probably his former partner, Macsyna King.
Asked by Crown lawyer Simon Mount of Ms King's attitude when she arrived at hospital, Ms Dillon said she appeared "elated" and showed no signs of distress at all.
"She was very easy to talk to and not at all distressed and answered questions freely," she said.
As she examined the babies Ms Dillon noticed bruises on both their faces.
She said they were obviously recent and covered the length of their faces.
"They were obvious bruises easily noticed by the naked eye. They were particularly down one side of the face on both children from the temple down to the mouth."
When she asked Ms King how the bruises came about she told her their one year-old son had leaned through the twins' cot and bashed their heads together.
Ms King appeared concerned about the twins then and her tone of voice changed.
Later, Ms Dillon told her the boys were critical and Chris had a broken leg,
Ms King replied : "That's terrible isn't it" and then went back into the hospital whanau room.
Under cross-examination by defence lawyer Michelle Wilkinson-Smith, Ms Dillon said Ms King had not demanded the babies received immediate attention by doctors and nurses.
The trial continues this afternoon.
