The jury has retired to deliberate their verdict in the High Court case of Lauren Dickason.<\/p>\n
For the last four weeks, Dickason has been on trial in Christchurch for the murder of her three young daughters in September 2021.<\/p>\n
She pleaded not guilty, with her defence arguing it was a case of infanticide and insanity instead.<\/p>\n
Justice Mander spent today summing up the case for the 12-person jury, made up of eight women and four men.<\/p>\n
He asked the jury to remain unaffected by emotion while deliberating and to reach a verdict based on the evidence.<\/p>\n
Justice Mander also went over what questions they would have to answer to reach a verdict, the thresholds for murder, infanticide and insanity, and recapped what had been covered across the trial.<\/p>\n
After retiring to consider their verdict, jury members returned to watch police interviews with Dickason and her husband for a second time.<\/p>\n
The interviews were recorded after Dickason killed their three daughters and the footage lasts a total of four hours.<\/p>\n
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VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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