The distraught daughter of an elderly woman murdered in her bed has told a judge of her guilt at having moved her mum into an aged-care facility which she thought would be safe. “I lost my chance and my duty to take care of her for the rest of my mum’s life, the way she took care of me,” said Janet Parkinson on Wednesday in her statement read at the sentence hearing of nurse Megan Haines in the NSW Supreme Court. The 49-year-old was found guilty of murdering Ms Parkinson’s mother, Marie Darragh, 82, and Isabella Spencer, 77, by administering insulin to them in the middle of the night in May 2014 at Ballina’s St Andrews Village on the NSW north coast.
