Three months after she killed her 3 children, mom Lauren Dickason still thought she did the right thing: Triple murder accused meets criteria for insanity defence, says new pysch expert.
08 August 2023 - 09:14
And on the three-month anniversary of her children's deaths, she told a forensic psychiatrist she still felt she had done the right thing,Liane, 6, and two-year-old twins Maya and Karla were killed in September 2021, at Timaru in New Zealand to which the South African family had relocated. The family had arrived in the town that week, after a fortnight in Covid-19 quarantine on arrival in the country.
Forensic psychiatrist Justin Barry-Walsh is on the witness stand this week, and he believes that because of her depression, she wasn't capable of understanding her actions were wrong. “She stated now she would do anything to change what happened but she still sometimes feels she has saved the children from the pain of the world.”He asked her whether she still felt she'd done the right thing. He said her response was, “the way that I am feeling, yes”.
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