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  • Hampshire mother jailed after drowning daughter during psychosis

    Hampshire mother jailed after drowning daughter during psychosis

    Overview of the case A 42-year-old teaching assistant from Hampshire was jailed after pleading guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility following the drowning of her two-year-old daughter, Annabel, on a common in Kingsley. The court heard that the mother, Alice Mackey, suffered postpartum psychosis and believed she was “a bad mother.” In…