Tag: Diminished responsibility


  • Hampshire mother jailed for drowning daughter amid postpartum psychosis

    Hampshire mother jailed for drowning daughter amid postpartum psychosis

    Overview of the case A teaching assistant from Hampshire has been sentenced after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of her two-year-old daughter in a case that highlighted the impact of postpartum psychosis on mental health and judgment. The tragedy unfolded in the village of Kingsley, where the mother drowned Annabel in a pond on a…