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By Susie Beever & Adam Dutton A bereaved mother has described her “pure torture” after losing her “beautiful” twin boys just six weeks apart. Heartbroken Nicola Minshall and Adam Pickerill have spoken out about the loss of their sons, Lucas and Aiden. The two-year-olds were diagnosed with an extremely rare genetic condition which caused them to regress to a newborn baby. The disorder is so rare, only 13 cases have been reported in the world since it was discovered in 2020, and it resulted in the otherwise healthy toddlers to suffer from daily seizures from just 18 months old. Doctors diagnosed…