Sarah Barrass, 35 and her half-brother Brandon Machin, 39 have been jailed for life for killing their two eldest sons.
The siblings had six children through an incestuous relationship so they decided to murder them all rather than hand them over to the care system.
The couple's two eldest sons Blake, 14 and Tristan, 13, were found dead on their bunk beds at home in Sheffield when police arrived in May.
It was later discovered that they had been strangled and suffocated by Barrass and Machin, while the other kids had been drugged.
The court heard that Barrass expected them to die during the night and she even took to Facebook to make posts that the children had caught a sickness bug.
When the children survived the night Barrass called Machin at his home nearby and they tried to drown one of the younger children in the bath, but he somehow managed to struggle free.
Barrass later called the police and tried to blame Machin for the murders of Blake and Tristan. However, when police arrived she initially told them that the boys were not in the house. It was one of the younger children who gestured to officers that the boys were dead by drawing a finger across his throat.
The younger children, despite vomiting and suffering hallucinations, survived the attempt to kill them and recovered in intensive care.
Machin later told police that the murders were Barrass's idea, claiming in interview that she said: "They need to die now, I'd rather kill them and kill myself than lose them to care. I gave them life and I can take it away."
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