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Inquest ordered into murder of Indigenous children

A state government has ordered the coroner to hold an inquest into the deaths of three Indigenous children murdered by their mother.

AAP · Oct 15

How Margaret Hawke came to murder her children in the rich export hub of Port Hedland in WA's north

As an inferno engulfs a home on the main street of a port town, Margaret Dale Hawke walks out the front door. She had just murdered her own children.

ABC News · May 5, 2023

Mum who stabbed and strangled her three kids to death before burning bodies jailed

Margaret Dale Hawke pleaded guilty to three counts of murder in the family's Port Hedland home and has been given a minimum non-parole period of 25 years by the Supreme Court in Perth, Australia

Daily Mirror · May 5, 2023

WA mum pleads guilty to murdering and burning her three children

A mother stabbed, strangled and suffocated her three children before burning their bodies in a house fire in Port Hedland

The New Daily · Apr 28, 2023

Margaret Hawke killed her three children in Port Hedland after being turned away from refuge, court told

A Perth court hears disturbing details of how Margaret Hawke murdered her three young children and then set their house on fire in the town of Port Hedland. WARNING: This article contains content that some readers may find distressing.

ABC News · Apr 28, 2023

WA mum admits murdering three kids in fire

Margaret Hawke, 36, faces a potential life sentence after pleading guilty to murdering her three children in a house fire in regional Western Australia.

AAP · Dec 21, 2022

Margaret Hawke pleads guilty to triple-murder of children after Port Hedland house fire

Margaret Hawke pleads guilty to three counts of murder after the bodies of her children aged 10, seven and five months were found in a house fire in WA's Pilbara.

ABC News · Dec 21, 2022

WA mother accused of murder faces court

A mother has faced a West Australian court accused of murdering her three children who died in a house fire in the regional town of Port Hedland.

AAP · Jul 25, 2022