Heartbreaking moment mother of twin girls, three, who perished in a tragic house fire stood alongside their pink caskets and sang as they were laid to rest
- Aisha and Lailani, three, died when their Batlow home caught fire on May 18
- Tanyka Ford, 29, sang as they were laid to rest at Tumut Lawn Cemetary on Friday
- Her voice cracked with emotion, reciting Sarah McLachlan's Arms of An Angel
- Their father Geoffrey Dubois, 28, said:'My life will never be the same without you'
- The house caught fire when their mother stepped outside and got locked out
A mother of twin girls who perished in a tragic house fire recited Sarah McLachlan's Arms of An Angel as her daughters' pink double coffin was lowered into the ground.
Aisha and Lailani, three, were laid to rest at Tumut Lawn Cemetery in the Snowy Mountains on Friday morning.
The identical twins' young lives were tragically cut short when their Batlow home caught on fire on May 18 while their mother Tanyka Ford, 29, and brother Dominick, five, were locked outside.
Aisha and Lailani, three, died when raging flames engulfed their family's housing commission home in Batlow, in southern NSW
Their grief-stricken mother clutched peonies as she sang, her voice cracking with emotion, as her daughters were laid to rest.
'They brought so much love into the world, two, beautiful, adventurous little girls; they were mum's angels and dad's spoiled little brats,' celebrant Chris Longhurst told mourners, The Daily Telegraph reports.
The girls' mother Tanyka Ford, 29, (pictured together) sang Sarah McLachlan's Arms of An Angel through a cracked voice as her daughters were laid to rest on Friday
'You were growing as a family, and an extended family, this is a heart wrenching time in your lives.'
Loved ones that gathered to say goodbye wore splashes of pink in honour of the sisters' favourite colour.
The girls' uncle Wayne Dubois said he could never make sense of the event that cruelly ripped them away.
'I can never understand … you were my world, your smiles, so sweet and tender, your lives were so short, now all that's left are black and white memories, my little ones, you will never understand how much you meant to us, may you shine among the brightest stars,' he said.
The girls' father Geoffrey Dubois, 28, told his daughters they were the light of his life and would have no idea how much he would miss them.
'My life will never be the same without you, you will be the best angels god has ever received, I will miss you so deeply,' he said, in a eulogy read by the celebrant.
Aisha and Lailani, three, died when raging flames engulfed their family's housing commission home in Batlow, in southern NSW
Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven played as mourners paid their last respects, releasing pink balloons bearing the word princess into the sky.
Dominick broke down in tears as he scattered petals over his sisters' lowered coffin, with relatives gathering to offer comfort.
An investigation revealed the girls' had removed a protective grill from the wood fireplace and set light to highly inflammable material in the family home.'
The girls had deadbolted the front door when Ms Ford stepped outside to throw away a pillow which caught alight from a log fire in the front room.
Screaming, she tried to break into the house but the ferocity of the fire had bolted the entrances shut.
Emergency services arrived and eventually forced their way inside the home, but it was too late to save Aisha and Lailani.
The sisters, who reportedly died from smoke inhalation, were found unconscious and holding hands in the front room.
The fire is believed to have started from a wood fire and by the time firefighters arrived and forced their way inside the home, it was too late to save the girls
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