A warning, this story is distressing.
Lauren Dickason's own mother has told the court she seemed absent in the final months before she left Pretoria, South Africa, for Timaru.
Wendy Fawkes gave evidence in her daughter's murder trial in the High Court in Christchurch yesterday.
Dickason denies she murdered her three children, Maya, Karla and Liané in Timaru in 2021, instead seeking a verdict of infanticide and insanity.
Niva Chittock was in court.
