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A woman who admitted killing three of her seven children and trying to kill a fourth by driving her car into a Melbourne lake is likely to be deported after serving jail time, a judge has said.
Akon Guode, 37, listened carefully to an Arabic interpreter and showed little emotion in the Victorian Supreme Court on Friday as Justice Lex Lasry said returning her to her home country of South Sudan was "almost a certainty".
Facing the Supreme Court, the mother of seven pleaded guilty on January 16 to murdering two of her children and killing a third after she drove her car into a lake in Melbourne's west in 2015. Vision courtesy ABC News 24.
A 16-year-old boy appears in Parramatta Children's Court charged with wounding with intent to murder his science teacher and two counts of wounding a person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
A proposed plan to keep rough sleepers off Melbourne streets is already coming under fire as legal experts say the change will cause more harm than good.
Kaine Geoffrey Jones is sentenced to at least six years jail for what Justice Ian Harrison described as an "unprovoked attack on a defenceless victim".
A junior staffer for Malcolm Turnbull's chief-of-staff has been suspended over an "inappropriate" anti-Trump post made three months ago after a 2GB radio host alerted the Prime Minister's office to the Facebook post on Friday.
A man is found with his throat slashed in a lift well at Westfield Doncaster shopping centre. Paramedics tried to save the man, but he died at the scene. Vision courtesy Seven News Melbourne.
Facing the Supreme Court, the mother of seven pleaded guilty on January 16 to murdering two of her children and killing a third after she drove her car into a lake in Melbourne's west in 2015. Vision courtesy ABC News 24.
Guode pleaded guilty last month to the infanticide of her one-year-old son Bol, the murders of her four-year-old twins Hanger and Madit and the attempted to murder of her six-year- old daughter Aluel on the same day in April 2015.
Guode came to Australia as a refugee in 2006 with her three oldest children from war-torn Sudan where her first husband died.