In 1993, the sisters were due to be transferred to another location, but Jennifer died in transit. Though her cause of death has never been officially realised, Ms Wallace said she and June believed Jennifer "sacrificed herself so June would be truly liberated".
Jennifer died unexpectedly, at the age of 29, from acute myocarditis, after the sisters were moved from Broadmoor after 11 years to a less secure unit. Her sister June now lives a private life in her native Wales and, Wallace says, 'liberated' by the death of her sibling.
The twins served almost 12 years at Broadmoor, the infamous maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Jennifer died in 1993 and June lives a private life today.
Today, June is living in the United Kingdom near her family. Though she never married or had children, she has rejoined society.
“In the [1994] documentary [Silent Twin — Without My Shadow], June says, 'It got to a point where we were speaking and they couldn't understand us, so we decided, well, we're not going to speak anymore. ' I think that it takes great strength to preserve your energy in such a staunch way.
Early in their upbringing the Gibbons girls were considered mentally ill for interacting only with each other and later institutionalized after vandalizing property.
June and Jennifer Gibbons were born in April 1963 and grew up in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. They were taken to Broadmoor Hospital, a high-security mental health hospital, when they were 19, before Jennifer died at the age of 30.
In the 1986 best-seller The Silent Twins, author Marjorie Wallace documents the fascinating lives of Jennifer and June Gibbons, English twins with selective mutism who were eventually incarcerated for the many crimes they committed together as teens and adults, including theft and arson.
June and Jennifer Gibbons were most likely Autistic or had Asperger's Syndrome. That would have made it difficult to communicate with people and understand the norms (very common among kids with Asperger's or ADHD).
Known as the "silent twins," June and Jennifer Gibbons barely talked to anyone except each other — for nearly 30 years. But then, one twin died under mysterious circumstances. In April of 1963 at the military hospital in Aden, Yemen, a pair of twin girls were born.
Now their sister Greta Hawkridge has spoken out after a Hollywood movie is due to be released about the pair. Jennifer Gibbons died on release from Broadmoor Hospital at a clinic in Bridgend. The medical reason given was acute myocarditis, a sudden inflammation of the heart. Jennifer was just 29.
But in director Agnieszka Smoczyńska's “The Silent Twins,” based on the true story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, everyone involved wanted to ensure that a sense of humanity came through in their representation of the identical sisters who were beaten down by a system that refused to understand them.
As the film shows, June and Jennifer would talk animatedly to each other until another person came into the room, then fall passive and quiet with their heads down. “Their silence was a protest towards racism — systemic racism that they experienced as children they couldn't fully understand,” Wright told The Post.
JENNIFER GIBBONS, one of the enigmatic sisters whose withdrawal into a secret world led to them being called the 'silent twins', died from natural causes, an inquest jury decided yesterday.
The duo, who had three siblings, developed “their own secret language, a mixture of English and Barbadian slang speeded up so as to be unintelligible to anyone else”, said The Sunday Times.
These boys introduced them to drugs, alcohol and arson. Their inhibitions began to melt, and they began to speak. Each lost their virginity to the same brother within a week. "That created tremendous instability," Marjorie Wallace told The Chicago Tribune.
But the Gibbons twins were not violent and their fantasy world is actually more advanced and evolved. June did, after all, have the chutzpah to get published, albeit with her own money.
June and Jennifer were born on April 11, 1963 to Gloria and Aubrey Gibbons, a black couple from Barbados. The "twinnies," as their mother called them, were born at a Royal Air Force base in Aden, where their father Aubrey was stationed.
Deveca Rose has spoken after the tragedy of losing her two sets of twin sons after a fire at their Sutton home on Thursday. Kyson and Bryson, four, and Leyton and Logan, three, all died after a blaze took over the ground floor of their home with smoke overwhelming the boys.
In 1981, the sisters committed several crimes, including shoplifting and arson. During their trial, the twins were found guilty of 16 counts of burglary, theft and arson and given an indefinite sentence at Broadmoor at age 19. “It was what would [be] the equivalent of a teenage juvenile behavior,” Wright says.
In the case of pregnancy continuation, the dead twin will progressively transform into “fetus papyraceous” due to the absorption of the soft tissues, placental and amniotic fluids. The dead fetus will be found compressed between the amniotic sac of the survival twin and the uterine wall [3].
Jack Bandeira: Wayne Kennedy.
The Silent Twins is a 2022 internationally co-produced biographical drama film about the twin sisters, June and Jennifer Gibbons, who were institutionalized at Broadmoor Hospital following years of silence and teenage rebellion.
' In the Kennedys' company, the girls discovered whisky and drugs: 'We sniffed glue and lighter fluid. We were different then, laughing and talking,' June recalled. 'We were so relaxed and laid-back.