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Australian mum who claimed witchcraft made her kill her three children by driving into lake pleads guilty to murder; Didn’t want to share custody with ex and his wife

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><header class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;header">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;headline-section"><strong><span class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;kicker theme&lowbar;&lowbar;copy-color">Akon Guode &lpar;left&rpar; has now pled guilty to murder<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;headline"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;260202&semi;">Akon Guode&comma; 37&comma; today pleaded guilty to murdering her one-year-old son and 4-year-old twins in Melbourne’s SW&comma; Australia&comma; Tuesday<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;headline"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;260202&semi;">Goude who earlier told the court had witchcraft made her kill her three children by driving into lake&comma; recanted and admitted murder triple homicide plus a count of attempted homicide<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;headline"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;260202&semi;">She pled guilty to murdering her 1-year-old son&comma; 4-year-old twins&comma; and the attempted murder of her 6-year-old daughter in April&comma; 2015<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;headline"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;260202&semi;">Boyfriend Joseph Tito Manyang&comma; father of the three dead children apparently was breaking off their relationship and returning to his wife<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;headline"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;260202&semi;">Witness testified she overheard Guode threaten she&&num;8217&semi;d&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;rather take her own life and that of the kids” than see them live with her lover&comma; Joseph Manyang&comma; and his wife<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-129629" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;akon-guode2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"akon-guode2" width&equals;"694" height&equals;"925" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<section class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;headline-section">&NewLine;<h6><strong>Akon Guode deliberately drowned her children&comma; in a fit of jealousy<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;section>&NewLine;<&sol;header>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;content">&NewLine;<p> A mom who claimed witchcraft made her drive her three children into a lake has now pled guilty to murder&period; According to <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;news&period;com&period;au&sol;national&sol;victoria&sol;courts-law&sol;akon-guode-pleads-guilty-to-killing-children-by-driving-into-a-lake&sol;news-story&sol;99c9fa810200b91323093ae8c6d415d9" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">News&period;com&period;au<&sol;a>  Akon Guode&comma; 37&comma; in court today&comma; admitted she deliberately caused the death of her one-year-old son and 4-year-old twins&comma; Hanger and Madit&comma;as well as&comma; attempting to murder her 6-year-old daughter in April 2015&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Guode has previously pled not guilty to murdering her three children when she crashed into Lake Gladman in Wyndham Vale in Melbourne’s southwest&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Last April she said in court she should not be blamed for her children’s death and claimed witchcraft could have been behind the fatal crash&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-129631" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;bol-and-the-twins&period;png" alt&equals;"Bol and the twins&period;png" width&equals;"891" height&equals;"361" &sol;><strong>Killed&colon; one-year-old Bol and twins Madit and Hanger&comma; 4&comma; all died after their mother drove them into a lake in April &comma; 2015<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<header class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;header">&NewLine;<section class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;headline-section">&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-129509" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;joseph-tito-manyang-left-the-father-of-the-three-children-allegedly-murdered-by-their-mum1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Joseph Tito Manyang &lpar;left&rpar;&comma; the father of the three children allegedly murdered by their mum1&period;jpg" width&equals;"680" height&equals;"456" &sol;><strong>Joseph Tito Manyang &lpar;left&rpar;&comma; the father of the three children killed by his former mistress&comma;  in a Wyndam Vale lake<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;section>&NewLine;<&sol;header>&NewLine;<p>A key witness previously told the court Guode thought she was under a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;spell” and she claimed her lover’s wife may have been behind it&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The court also heard in July last year a woman allegedly heard Guode admit she caused the death of her three children&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;During Guode’s committal hearing&comma; her ex-boyfriend Joseph Tito Manyang&comma; who is also the father of the three dead children said he believed the tragedy was an accident and continued to visit Guode in prison&comma; but iwas believed at the time&comma; that he was returning to his wife&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m still believing Akon&comma; she didn’t do it&comma;” he told the court on June 28&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;But an investigator told the court he believed the car was driven in deliberately&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-129626" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;guodes-car-submerged-in-the-lake2&period;jpg" alt&equals;" Guode's car submerged in the lake2&period;jpg" width&equals;"650" height&equals;"366" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Akon Guode&&num;8217&semi;s submerged after it plunged into a lake<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;media">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;media-img-container open-gallery"><img data-amp-lightbox&equals;"true" lightbox&equals;"true" class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-129514" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;guode&lowbar;s-van-being-removed-from-lake-gladman-in-melbourne-victoria-australia&period;jpg" rel&equals;"prettyPhoto"><strong>The defendant’s car being removed from Lake Gladman in Melbourne&comma; Victoria<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;credit">However&comma; after examining and simulating the crash scenario&comma; Victoria Police collision investigators disagreed with her version of events&period; Detective Senior Constable Robert Hay concluded&colon; &period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;From the drive-throughs of the collision scene&comma; it is my opinion that the car could not and did not just drift off the roadway&comma;” he said in a report tendered to Guode’s committal hearing&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;content">&NewLine;<p>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&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;media"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-129522" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;a-crash-demonstration-test-convinced-investigators-the-van-could-only-get-into-the-lake-with-delibrate-intentions1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"a-crash-demonstration-test-convinced-investigators-the-van-could-only-get-into-the-lake-with-delibrate-intentions1" width&equals;"680" height&equals;"453" &sol;><strong>A crash investigator said tests demonstrated the car could only end up in the lake if the driver intend to end up there  <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;During the drive-through it was demonstrated that there would be three turns of the steering wheel to get to the ballast area&comma;” Sr Constable Hay wrote&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He says his analysis of the scene shows Guode’s car veered off Manor Lakes Boulevard&comma; passed between trees planted on the grass reserve and continued along the reserve’s concrete walking track&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It then travelled down the bank&comma; striking large rocks&comma; and landed in the lake&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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