Lauren Dickason, convicted of murdering her three young daughters, has been sentenced to 18 years in a mental health facility.
Following the sentencing yesterday Dickason’s family released statements which expressed a deep dissatisfaction with the Labour government’s strict COVID-19 quarantine rules, which they believe exacerbated her mental health issues.
They also criticised the investigation and court process, highlighting the challenges posed by the MIQ (Managed Isolation and Quarantine) requirements.
One family member wrote:
‘We are angry with the New Zealand Government for such strict MIQ rules, even for families of five, with small children who are used to running around in South African gardens, having ample space to move around and run freely.’
Dickason’s father Malcolm Fawkes also questioned the draconian COVID-19 policies at the time, asking ‘Why did you impose such inhumane MIQ requirements on essential service people and others in general?’
The Dickason family had emigrated from Pretoria, arriving in New Zealand on August 28, 2021. They spent two weeks in managed isolation and then travelled to Timaru, where Dickason’s husband Graham had taken a job as an orthopaedic surgeon. Less than a week later the children were murdered, on 16 September.
Former Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins acknowledged the family’s difficult circumstances but refrained from further comment.
I’m sick of this mental health courtroom cop out.. Bring back mental asylums and straight jackets,shock therapy.. all this mental health will disappear.. people need to put there screens down. Eat proper food and exercise.. we all know what the government did during the plandemic was evil but was no excuse to kill your children
Entitled people trying to justify an abhorrent crime committed by an equally abhorrent woman.
So you personally know these people, or at least know them well enough to call them entitled. A bit like those who make similar judgements about Trump without knowing him. It seems like the family are backing the freedom community but there you are, by your own admission, standing in judgement of them. Might be a timely reminder for us all to stop believing we read leading us to make baseless statements about people we don’t even know.
I have to agree with you there. Nothing excuses what she did and she will have to live with this for the rest of her life. I can’t imagine how hard it is for the rest of the family too 😢
It was not mental health. It was pure anger and rage. A real nasty person. Imagine if it was a man. The sentence would be longer and he would be locked up in a small 6 by 9 room with no windows. If he mixed with other prisoners he would be beaten up if not killed.
No sane person kills 3 of their children
As a human being and as a fellow South African, I find NO justification for these or any other murder. I understand that the entire chapter is very painful for the greater family and that they would be grasping at any rationale to make sense of it. However, what this lady did is so irrational and evil that no rationale can ever explain it. She can be lucky for the sentence she got. If she did this in the South Affrica of the past she would have received the death penalty. Comparitively her punishment is light and they should be greatful.Today in South Africa, the sentence would have been similair to what the NZ court handed her.
Yes, the Ardern regime was a terrible blight on this country, but there can be no place in society for an individual who murders her children.
And yet, those who instituted the Covid Lock-Down Conspiracy are still…for the most part…in Parliament!
THEY need to be criminally charged under the various Rights Acts, starting with the Nuremburg Code!
Yes all that however some serious questions need to be asked, is it right to keep children and Psycho Mum all locked up in MIQ etc…
Putty face and Jabby have a lot to awnser for.
A greasy looking creature
Can’t really blame the MIQ system. It was a one part of the stupid elimination strategy, which was always bound to fail – as much as its backers still talk it up.
The family would’ve known it was in place before they travelled. If it exacerbated her mental health problems, then that implies those problems were already known and immigration maybe could of denied their application.
A very sad state of affairs.