A “gentle and caring” mother killed her baby while taking her for a walk in a pram after they left a mental health unit where she had been treated, a court has heard.
Her husband was at the family home in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, where he was wrapping presents and preparing the tree, in expectation of his wife and baby being able to join him later that day. The month before she killed Evelyn, MacFarlane placed her in the kitchen sink and submerged her before she came to and realised what she had done, the prosecution said.
The mother and baby went to the Christmas party on the unit and then MacFarlane took Evelyn out in a pram for a late afternoon walk – which she was permitted to do – and she appeared to be in good spirits, the court was told. Mr Hassall said that in police interviews MacFarlane never sought to deny responsibility for killing the baby.
During discussions about the defendant’s culpability, given the state of her mental health at the time, Mr Hassall said of the offence: “The harm could not be greater and it is difficult to see how the culpability could be any less.”
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