But the worst for Ms Lawson was the sentimental items she would not be able to replace.
"Tried my hardest to lead a normal everyday life after last week hearing that we don't need to listen to a pathetic excuse of a retrial only to hear our home had been burgled and a majority of our valuable things has taken," she wrote on Facebook yesterday.
"Duno how much more I can take."
In another post, she wrote a tribute to her daughter on the anniversary of her death today: "We miss u my baby girl jade. 4 years today and still breaks my heart. Fly high girl. There's not a day that goes by that we don't think of u."
Jade was just 13 when she was murdered by Jeremy McLaughlin, her mother's ex-partner, in 2011.
McLaughlin, 35, denied strangling the Christchurch schoolgirl with a piece of cord, stuffing socks in her mouth, dousing her Christchurch house in petrol and setting it ablaze but was found guilty of murder in a high-profile trial.
In 2013, McLaughlin was jailed for life with a minimum non-parole period of 23 years for the murder.
A jury of seven women and five men -- who weren't allowed to know McLaughlin's criminal history -- took just two hours to find him guilty.
It was later revealed he'd spent time in an Australian prison for the 1995 manslaughter of a 14 year-old.
Detective Senior Sergeant John Rae, who headed Jade's murder investigation, was emotional when he spoke about the case at the time.
"The shock of this case is not just that someone's been killed, not just that a wee girl has been killed, but that fact she was killed in her own home, where we all expect our kids to be safe," he said, fighting back tears.
The Court of Appeal rejected McLaughlin's appeal against conviction in July this year.
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