NOT THE LAURIE WE KNEW
TO THOSE who knew her well, she was “lovely Laurie”, a loyal wife and friend, a pillar of the community, a devoted mother to her three little girls.
She’d been looking forward to moving to New Zealand and starting a new chapter – which is why, when the shocking news broke that the children were dead, the idea that Lauren Dickason might be responsible was the last thing on her best friend Paula’s* mind.
“She hugged those little girls of hers to pieces every day, as if she couldn’t get enough of them,” Paula says. “I thought maybe they’d been burgled or maybe
