⚖️Court hears Lauren Dickason had been thinking about methods to murder her children 😢 since she lived in SA. LaurenDickason DickasonMurderTrial infantcide childabuse murder
reported that McLeavey said while Dickason was a “mentally disordered woman with a vulnerable personality” and had a “limited capacity to manage stress”, she did not believe she was insane at the time of the alleged murders and has no infanticide or insanity defence.Beaton argued that Dickason’s husband, Graham, bought the cable ties and the mother’s decision to use them was “entirely impulsive”.McLeavey said she could not agree with that.
The expert noted Dickason told her that her first idea to kill the children on the night of their deaths was to do so by cutting their arteries − a method she’d previously thought of and disclosed to her husband. She, however, reconsidered this because it was “too violent and messy” and then chose the cable ties. According to the forensic psychiatrist, she also admitted that she already had thoughts of harming the children − specifically using cable ties − while in South Africa.
McLeavey said all these disclosures, coupled with Dickason’s internet search history of how to overdose children, showed in her opinion that the murders were “premeditated”., the defence’s expert, forensic psychiatrist Dr Justin Barry-Walsh, also took the stand on Monday.The psychiatrist said that during their interviews, Dickason “conveyed a sense of hopelessness”.
She reportedly said the world was such a mess, “it seemed better if they were dead as well. I was not going to leave them behind… it seemed like the logical thing to do”.Dickason reportedly said the family immigrating to New Zealand had been “the biggest mistake they’d made” and that she had told 14 or 15 people “she was not OK”.
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