Father tells Greek court of Corfu fumes deaths

A GRIEVING father broke down in tears yesterday as he told a Greek court of the moments leading up to the deaths of his children from carbon monoxide poisoning in their holiday apartment.

Christianne Shepherd, seven, and her brother Robert, six, from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, died after a faulty boiler leaked gas into their Corfu bungalow in October 2006.

The children were on holiday with their father Neil and his partner, Ruth Beatson, who were both left in a coma as a result of the accident but survived.