add in your statement that compression was virtually nill and it points to the valves having been folded or not sealing in the proper 'sequence' to generate compression.
Therefore, my WAG was to look at the timing belt first. If the belt and tensioner are fine I'd look at the cam chain /cam chain tensioner and cam timing next.

P1304= crank camshaft out of sequence
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