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Nothing seemed out of the ordinary at the family home on the day the Kahui twins were taken to a doctor, a court heard today.
Shane Saunders, a family member, said he did not see any injuries on the twins as they were being dressed and placed in
their car seats, before being taken to the family doctor.
Mr Saunders said at Manukau District Court today that everything "seemed fine" at the south Auckland house on the Tuesday morning but he had been told that Kahui was "pissed off" because his sister had yelled at him about the state of the untidy house.
Mr Saunders, who is the husband of Chris Kahui's cousin April Saunders, said he did not realise the family were getting ready to go to the doctors.
Chris Kahui, the twins' father, is charged with their murder.
Earlier Mr Saunders said he and his wife April were at the house the day before the twins were taken to the doctors, when Kahui was alone in the twins' bedroom, when he heard one of the twins cry.
Mr Saunders said his wife went to the bedroom and returned with one of the twins and fed the baby before returning him to his cot.
Mr Saunders said Ms King was the dominant partner in the relationship.
He was aware the family was stressed because of Kahui's mother being very ill in hospital, he said.
When asked by crown prosecutor Richard Marchant whether people were also stressed because they were sharing a home with four young children, Mr Saunders replied no.
Mr Saunders said Banjo Kahui, the twins' paternal grandfather, visited him on the Tuesday morning, and told him baby Cru had stopped breathing the night before.
Mr Saunders said he asked Mr Kahui whether he called an ambulance and when he said no, he asked why.
Mr Kahui told him that he had given Cru "some compressions on the chest and then the baby started breathing normally again," he said.
Mr Kahui is expected to give evidence this afternoon.
Chris and Cru Kahui were admitted to Middlemore Hospital on June 13 last year and died in Starship Children's Hospital five days later.
- NZPA
