Akon Guode, 37, today pleaded guilty to murdering her one-year-old son and four-year-old twins
A MUM who claimed WITCHCRAFT made her drive her three children into a lake has now pleaded guilty to murder.
Akon Guode, 37, today pleaded guilty to murdering her one-year-old son and four-year-old twins, Hanger and Madit, 4, and attempting to murder her six-year-old daughter in 2015, reports News.com.au.
Last April she said in court she should not be blamed for her children’s death andclaimed witchcraft could have been behind the fatal crash.
A key witness previously told the court Guode thought she was under a “spell” and she claimed her lover’s wife may have been behind it.
CHILD KILLERS
Three kids decapitated by attackers who 'stole their heads for witchcraft rituals' as they walked homeThe court also heard in July last year a woman allegedly heard Guode admit she caused the death of her three children.
The witness gave evidence she overheard Guode say she would “rather take her own life and that of the kids” than see them live with her lover, Joseph Manyang, and his wife.
Mr Manyang is the father of the three dead children, and Alual. There were rumours at the time he was returning to his wife.
During Guode’s committal hearing Mr Manyang said he believed the tragedy was an accident and continued to visit Guode in prison.
“I’m still believing Akon, she didn’t do it,” he told the court on June 28.
But an investigator told the court he believed the car was driven in deliberately.
Victoria Police collision investigator and civil engineer Detective Senior Constable Robert Hay examined the scene of the crash and conducted several re-enactments with a similar vehicle. “From the drive-throughs of the collision scene, it is my opinion that the car could not and did not just drift off the roadway,” he said in a report tendered to Guode’s committal hearing.
He also said the tests demonstrated a driver would have to turn the steering wheel three times to get to the lake’s ballast area on the banks of Manor Lakes from the road next to it.
“During the drive-through it was demonstrated that there would be three turns of the steering wheel to get to the ballast area,” Sen-Constable Hay wrote.
He says his analysis of the scene shows Guode’s car veered off Manor Lakes Boulevard, passed between trees planted on the grass reserve and continued along the reserve’s concrete walking track.
It then travelled down the bank, striking large rocks, and landed in the lake.
