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On Father's Day, 2 September 2001, a Sydney father murdered his three children. The three children who each had different mothers, were found dead on a bed in their father’s home. The children had been suffocated.
They were Mikaylah Green aged 11 weeks, Taylah Pringle aged 11 months and six year old Jackson Merritt. Craig Merritt was originally sentenced to three life imprisonments, becoming the first person in Australia to be jailed for life for killing his own children.
Merritt’s appeal against the severity of the sentence was successful in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal, and it was reduced to 34 years.
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Mikaylah Green, Taylah Pringle, Jackson Merritt
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