A woman who pleaded guilty to killing her three children and burning their bodies in a house fire had to be restrained in court after repeatedly banging her head on a balustrade in court.
Margaret Dale Hawke, 36, sobbed as details of how she murdered her kids - a 10-year-old girl, a seven-year-old boy and a four-month-old boy - were revealed in the Western Australia Supreme Court.
The court was told the two oldest children had been stabbed and strangled, while the baby had been smothered at their home in the Pilbara town of Port Hedland, Western Australia, in July last year.
