Couple defy odds: have black and white twins … again!
Dean Durrant, 33, and Alison Spooner, 27, of Fleet, Hampshire, have had another set of twin girls with different coloured skin.
Miya has her father’s black skin and Leah is white like her mother.
The couple’s first set of twins arrived in 2001, with blue-eyed, red-haired Lauren taking after her mother while Hayleigh has black skin and hair like her father.
Ms Spooner told Sky News: “I honestly didn’t think it would happen again.
“I thought we would have two the same – and I didn’t think we’d have twins again for a start. That was a shock,” she said.
Miya and Leah were delivered by Caesarean section at Frimley Park Hospital, in Surrey, at just 37 weeks of pregnancy after scans revealed both babies were in the breech position.
Mr Durrant said he began to suspect they were different colours when second-born Miya arrived.
He explained: “I was sure in my mind there was a difference but I didn’t think it was as much as with Hayleigh and Lauren but obviously it is.”
The babies were taken to a special care unit because they were not breathing properly so it took five days for the parents to see them side by side.
“It’s amazing,” Mr Durrant added. “I think I’m still in shock.”
