IT TOOK them more than 14 hours to reach a verdict – and even then they weren’t all in agreement. It was clear this jury had a tough task and some were moved to tears as they left the courtroom where they had to decide the fate of the woman who had killed her three young children.
In the end they turned to Justice Cameron Mander for instruction and he told them to deliver a majority verdict. And so the eight women and four men did: 11-1 found Lauren Dickason guilty of three counts of murder.
In all his time as a lawyer he’s never seen members of a jury cry, Dr James Mehigan, a legal expert in New Zealand, tells YOU. “They didn’t come to this decision
