Mother Wails As She's Jailed For Killing Three Of Her Children

Jailed for at least 20 years


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A mother who killed three of her seven children has been jailed for 26 years and six months.

37-year-old Akon Guode deliberately drove her car into a lake in Melbourne's outer south-west two years ago.

Court proceedings were stopped briefly when Guode, a Sudanese refugee, broke down. 

She had wailed through most of her sentence in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. 

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Guode was found guilty over the drowning deaths of her 16-month-old Bol, and four-year-old twins Hanger and Madit after they were driven into Lake Gladman in Wyndham Vale on April 8, 2015.

A fourth child was also in the car, but was rescued. 

During sentencing, Victorian Supreme Court Judge Lex Lasry labelled the mother's actions as "the product of extreme desperation".

30 May 2017




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