This mobile phone picture shows a fox suspected of mauling twin sisters as they slept.

Twin baby girls mauled by a fox as they slept remained in hospital today as London Mayor Boris Johnson said councils should “focus on their duties for pest control”.

THE mother of baby twins mauled by a fox as they slept spoke of her fears for the girls as they recovered in hospital yesterday.

Twin baby girls were being treated in hospital today after they were mauled by a fox as they slept.