Mother of Soesdyke children believes murders were planned

The Blanchard family in happier times: Daniel Blanchard in the foreground is dead as is Belika Blanchard Singh (right in second row). Critically injured is Joy Blanchard (left in second row). John Blanchard at right in back row is in police custody. Next to him is his wife Onicka Blanchard.

“I regret how my children died. I believe that he planned to do this. There were too many chops for it to have been unplanned [but] I didn’t see signs of it,” the mother of the three children who were brutally chopped by their father related yesterday, as she struggles to cope with the deaths of two of her three children.

The grieving 27-year-old Onica Blanchard recalled the horrible details of her last phone conversations with her husband John Blanchard,