A Melbourne mother who admitted to murdering three of her seven children by driving her car into a lake will return to court on January 31.
In the Victorian Supreme Court on Monday, around a fortnight before her murder trial was due to begin, Akon Guode, 37, formally pleaded guilty to the infanticide of her one-year-old son, Bol, and the murders of her four-year-old twins, Hanger and her brother Madit.
She also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of her six-year-old daughter, Alual, who survived the crash in Wyndham Vale on April 8, 2015.
She was remanded to reappear in the Supreme Court on January 31.
As the charges were read to her on Monday, with the help of an interpreter, the only words Guode said were "guilty" to each charge.
None of her family was present and detectives who investigated the children's deaths did not comment as they left court.
Guode was in August ordered to stand trial for three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder following a four-week committal hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court.
