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16.08.2023 - 08:47 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A mother has been found guilty of murdering her three young daughters in a case that has shocked a nation.
Lauren Dickason had earlier admitted killing her two-year-old twin daughters Maya and Karla, and their six-year-old sister Liane, at their home in Timaru on South Island, New Zealand, nearly two years ago.
But the 42-year-old had pled not guilty to murder, arguing she was mentally disturbed at the time of the killings and did not know that what she was doing was wrong.
Prosecutors, however, pointed to Dickason’s troubling phone messages and online history in the weeks before the killings, including comments about wanting to kill her children and Google searches for “most effective overdose in kids”.
Dickason and her husband Graham, both qualified medical professionals, had moved from South Africa to New Zealand just days before the murders, seeking a more stable lifestyle away from the turmoil in their home country.
Jurors at Christchurch High Court heard Lauren Dickason at first tried to kill her children using zip ties and then suffocated them with pillows. She then placed them in their beds under the covers and tried to kill herself.
Graham Dickason, an orthopaedic surgeon, returned from a work dinner to find his children dead. He later told police he knew his wife was struggling with her mental health and with motherhood but had no idea she was capable of killing.
The guilty verdict came after a four-week trial. Jurors rejected Dickason’s legal defences under New Zealand’s insanity and infanticide laws.
The verdict was not unanimous, with jurors voting 11-1 in favour of conviction, a split allowed under New Zealand laws. Dickason faces a sentence of life imprisonment.
Radio New Zealand (RNZ) reported Dickason was
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