WA mum 'not depressed' when boys died  2:35pm April 30, 2013
Miranda Hebble cuddles her youngest son Malachi Isaac Stevens.
Miranda Hebble cuddles her youngest son Malachi Isaac Stevens.
The father of two young boys, who died after their mother left
them in a shower for 10 hours, has told a coronial inquest his
former partner had bad sleeping habits but he never thought she
was depressed.  The West Australian coroner is examining the
deaths of Lochlan James Stevens, aged two, and Malachi Isaac
Stevens, 10 months, who died in November 2008.  Their exhausted
mother Miranda Hebble put them in the shower, after Lochlan had
made a mess with his faeces, and closed the bathroom door.  She
fell asleep or passed out and woke up about 10 hours later to
find water overflowing from the shower and both boys dead.  Ms
Hebble, then aged 22, was caring for her sons alone in Perth
while the boys' father Christopher Stevens, then aged 23, was
working on a fly-in fly-out basis.  The couple has since split.
The little boys die