Tragic boys died from asphyxiation from unpermitted python

The mother of two small boys strangled by a 100lb python in their sleep in Canada had posted photos on Facebook last year of them playing in and cleaning her neighbour’s snake enclosure.

Mandy Trecartin’s Facebook page has hundreds of photos of her sons, including a few showing Noah Barthe, four, and Connor Barthe, six, happily scrubbing the glass enclosure, which she identified as an anaconda habitat.