31 Jul 2023

Prosecutors challenge view that Dickason was psychotic when she killed daughters

From Checkpoint, 5:51 pm on 31 July 2023

A jury has heard how Lauren Dickason told a psychiatrist that killing her three children was a package deal.

The 42-year-old is on trial for the murder of her three young daughters, Maya Karla and Liané in Timaru in September 2021.

A warning, parts of this story are distressing.

Earlier, crown prosecutors challenged clinical views that the mother was psychotic and delusional at the time she killed her children.

Adam Burns was in the High Court in Christchurch.