A woman who claims to have heard Akon Guode admit to killing children has ‘disturbed history’

A WOMAN who claims Akon Guode admitted killing her three youngest children has a “very disturbed history”, a court has been told.

Akon Guode was accused of killing three of her children.

A WOMAN who claims a Melbourne mother admitted killing her three youngest children has a “very disturbed history”, a court has been told.

The key witness claims she spoke to Akon Guode after the mother-of-seven’s car plunged into a Wyndham Vale lake in Melbourne’s southwest in April 2015 with four of her children inside.

The woman says she later asked Guode: “Did you really do it”? “She said ‘Yes I did it’,” the woman, who cannot be identified, said in a statement.

“What I understood that to mean was that she had taken her kids’ lives.”

A car is submerged in a lake in Wyndham Vale. Picture: Mark Stewart

The Melbourne Magistrates Court has heard the witness, who was arrested last week after failing to show up to give evidence, has some mental health issues.

She also claims Guode, before the crash, said she’d “rather take her own life and that of the kids” than see them live with her lover, Joseph Manyang, and his wife.

The witness says she overheard Guode claim Mr Manyang’s wife was threatening her.

“I could see that Akon was stressed and scared,” the woman’s statement says.

“Akon said she would rather take her own life and that of the kids.

“She said in a jealous kind of way that she didn’t want the kids to go to (Mr Manyang) and the wife, that she wanted herself and the kids to go together, to end it.”

Joseph Manyang mourns after his children were killed. Picture: Mark Stewart

Guode’s barrister, Julian McMahon, said he had received documents suggesting the witness was abusing drugs and alcohol at the time of the alleged conversation.

“She’s evidently got a very disturbed history,” he told the court on Wednesday morning before Guode’s hearing was delayed, because she was yet to be brought to the court by prison van.

She is charged with murdering her one-year-old son, Bol, and twins Hanger and her brother Madit, four.

One-year-old Bol and four-year-old twins Madit and Hanger died after the 4WD they were in crashed into a lake at Wyndham Vale. Picture: Twitter.

The 37-year-old is also charged with attempting to murder her six-year-old daughter, Alual, who survived after being pulled from the water on April 8 last year.

She says a dizzy spell caused the lake tragedy.

Guode’s barrister has flagged a bail application at the end of her hearing.