Alleged lake killer pleads not guilty

A MOTHER charged with murdering her three youngest children by driving into a Melbourne lake has pleaded not guilty to the alleged crimes.

The scene where a car drove into a lake killing three children in Wyndham Vale. Picture: Hamish Blair

A MOTHER charged with murdering her three youngest children by driving into a Melbourne lake has pleaded not guilty to the alleged crimes.

Mother-of-seven Akon Guode pleaded not guilty today to murdering her one-year-old son, Bol, and twins Hanger and her brother Madit, 4, who died when her car crashed into Lake Gladman on April 8 last year.

The 37-year-old also pleaded not guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates Court to the attempted murder of her six-year-old daughter, Alual, who survived after being pulled from the water in Wyndham Vale, and is now applying for bail.

Bol, 1, Madit, 4, and Hanger, 4, died after the four-wheel drive they were in crashed into a lake at Wyndham Vale in Melbourne's outer west. Their mother Akon Guode has been charged with their murder.

Akon Guode, centre, at a vigil after the lake incident. Picture: Ian Currie