Lauren Anne Dickason has been found guilty of murdering her three young children at their Timaru home.
The jury of eight women and four men reached a majority verdict.
Dickason, 42, stood in the dock calmly as she was convicted of three counts of murder. She was taken out of the courtroom while Justice Cameron Mander discharged the jury. As the jurors left court some broke down weeping.
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