A mother has been charged with the murder of her three children after they perished in a house fire in the West Australian town of Port Hedland. 7NEWS
A mother has been charged with the murder of her three children after they perished in a house fire in theA 10-year-old girl and two boys, aged seven and five months, were found dead inside the Anderson Street property by firefighters who responded to the blaze on July 19.
Their mother, Margaret Dale Hawke, 36, has been charged with three counts of murder and one count of criminal damage by fire.She has been refused bail by police and was due to face Perth Magistrates Court on Tuesday.Credit:A 10-year-old girl and two boys, aged seven and five months, were found dead inside the Port Hedland home on July 19.Hawke was hospitalised at Hedland Health Campus after the fire before being flown to Perth for further specialist treatment.
The blaze has sent shockwaves through the community of Port Hedland, in WA’s Pilbara region in the northwest of the state.In a statement on Friday evening, the Hawke family said it was going through a “very traumatic grief process” and asked for the family’s privacy to be respected. “We are quietly paying tribute to our three little angels, and just supporting each other at this time,” they said.
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