8 Aug 2023

Mother's mental health was deteriorating when she killed daughters - forensic clinician

From Checkpoint, 5:54 pm on 8 August 2023

A forensic clinican has told a jury that Lauren Dickason's mental health was badly deteriorating at the time she killed her children, and has grounds for both an insanity and infanticide case.

The High Court trial for the 42 year old murder accused has stretched into a fourth week at Christchurch.

Dickason is defending three charges of murder following the death of her three young daughters, Karla, Maya and Liané in 2021.

The court heard further evidence today from another psychiatric expert in the trial. Adam Burns was in the High Court.