EMIGRATION to New Zealand with the promise of a new life ended in heartbreak and devastation on Thursday night for Dr Graham Dickason and his wife Lauren with the shocking death of their three girls, Liane, seven, and twins, Maya and Karla, three.
Yesterday the girls’ mother, Lauren, 40, also a doctor, was arrested and charged with the murder of all three girls. She was expected to appear in the Timaru District Court this morning.
According to the New Zealand Herald, neighbour Jade Whaley said that at about 9.40pm, she and her husband heard banging, which was then followed by sobbing and moaning coming from the Dickasons’ home.“We went outside and realised it was coming from the neighbouring property,” Whaley told the media, adding that they saw a neighbour speaking to someone from the back unit, after which police were called.
“On arrival at the scene, emergency services found three deceased people. One other person has been hospitalised,” said Anderson. There were also ex-pat South Africans laying flowers outside the house and an outpouring of sympathy on the South Africans Living In Timaru FaceBook group, with Lydia Rothman posting “heartbreaking, how desolate and hopeless must one feel to do something like this”.
An interim order suppressing publication of the names was briefly put in place by the coroner in order for the police to have time to contact the family’s relatives, but this was lifted yesterday evening.
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