The daughters of a SA couple who relocated to New Zealand - found dead in their new home by their father - were allegedly strangled.
Lauren Dickason, a medical practitioner accused of murdering her twins aged two and their six-year-old sister, appeared in court on Saturday.
Local media reported that Timaru district court judge Dominic Dravitzki remanded her to a secure forensic mental health unit until October 5. A former colleague of their father Graham, who has just started working as an orthopaedic surgeon at Timaru Hospital, and a source in New Zealand toldJade Whaley, the family's neighbour, toldshe and her husband were watching television and heard two screams followed by a man crying hysterically. “Is this really happening,” he kept asking.
Dressed in a grey hoodie and black pants, the 40-year-old doctor from Pretoria stood in the dock with her head bent and eyes on the floor for most of the proceedings.While she stood in the dock, flowers and soft toys piled up at the address where the girls died, reported
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