Canberra children give heartbreaking statement after mother tried to kill them

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Updated December 18 2020 - 6:53pm, first published December 17 2020 - 4:30pm
Investigators at the scene of the house fire in July last year. Picture: Andrew Brown
Investigators at the scene of the house fire in July last year. Picture: Andrew Brown

Two young children who came "perilously close to death" when their mother tried to burn them alive have heartbreakingly told a court that "mummy gave up on us being a family".

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Blake Foden was a court reporter at The Canberra Times.

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