A mother has been charged with murder after she allegedly stabbed her two sons at their Blue Mountains home.
The boy’s father found his two sons, Russell Smith, 11, and his younger brother Ben, 9, inside the Faulconbridge house just before 1pm on Tuesday.
The boys’ mother Trish Smith, 42, was arrested and spent Tuesday night under police guard in hospital, where she arrived in a stable condition.
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She was released on Friday and taken to Parramatta Police Station where she was charged with two counts of murder (DV).
She has been refused bail to appear at Parramatta Local Court on Saturday.
Investigators had declined to speculate on what occurred before the brothers died but said they were not looking for any other parties.
Since the deaths, bouquets of flowers, teddy bears and toy cars have been placed outside the family’s home.
Tributes to the boys were propped against the fence as a photo of the smiling, dark-haired siblings was publicly released by their family.
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