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The High Court in Christchurch has heard Lauren Dickason spoke about harming her daughters on three separate occasions before they died.
Liané aged six, and two-year-old twins Karla and Maya were killed in Timaru in September 2021.
Their mother has pleaded not guilty to all three charges of murder, instead seeking a verdict of insanity and infanticide.
Speaking by video link from South Africa, the girls' father, Graham Dickason, yesterday told the court his wife struggled to cope with mounting anxiety.
Niva Chittock reports.
