'I'm not really coping but I have to be OK for the girls': Mum found partner dead on the sofa days before their baby twins turned one

PROUD dad to baby twins was found dead on the sofa by his loving partner.

- TAITE JOHNSON

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Chloe Powles, 34, was days away from celebrating the first birthday of the couple’s twins when she discovered Alex Green's body in the living room of their Pencoed home.

The 30-year-old, also dad to 12-year-old Gracie, had taken to sleeping on the sofa in order not to disrupt babies Livie and Georgina, who both have rare health conditions which need constant treatment and were sleeping in the couple's bedroom.

Reliving the events of August 20 this year, Chloe said at around 2am, Alex headed upstairs to ask if he could come to bed.

Not wanting to wake the girls, Chloe told him to go back downstairs.

A few hours later, Chloe came downstairs to find Alex's lifeless body on the sofa.

She said: “At 8.04am I rang the ambulance because when I came down in the morning he was sitting up on the sofa, blue and stiff.

“It ruined me - I can’t even put it into words.”

A postmortem examination has yet to take place and Chloe has been told it could take months or even years to find out the cause of death.

Not wanting to be in the same house as the one she found her partner’s body in, Chloe is hoping to move home in the near future.

Two days after the tragedy, Livie and Georgina celebrated their first birthday but as Alex’s family sang Happy Birthday to the twins, Chloe had to walk out of the room.

She said: “I couldn't do it. I'm not really coping but I have to be OK for the girls.

“It’s just hard - I'd love to just not be OK but I have the girls to think about.”

The pair had been together for two years after rekindling their relationship from years earlier, having met through Alex’s sister who is also Chloe's best friend.

With Alex having an older daughter and Chloe being mum to now eight-year-old daughter Charlie, the couple were surprised to find out their family was growing.