Woman Jailed for 18 Yrs for Killing 3 Daughters In New Zealand

A woman named Lauren Dickason was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment by a New Zealand judge on Wednesday for killing her three young daughters in 2021.

The triple murder-accused woman will begin her sentence at a mental health hospital in the custody of the state. In a statement to local media after her sentencing, Dickason said she had “failed” her children and her husband, who has since moved back to South Africa.

“I would like to take this opportunity to convey the deepest and most sincere remorse for the extreme pain and hurt caused to my children and my family by my actions,” she added.

Dickason was found guilty in August 2023 on three counts of murder having choked to death her two-year-old twins Maya and Karla and first daughter Liane, six, in September 2021 at their home in Timaru while her husband was out.

The family had moved to New Zealand from South Africa just weeks before.