Who is Lindsay Clancy and what is she accused of?published at 15:30 BST
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Lindsay Clancy is a 36-year-old Massachusetts mother and former labour and delivery nurse who is on trial for the murder of her three young children in 2023.
Clancy is accused of strangling her kids – Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, who was eight months – with fitness bands in their Massachusetts home before jumping out of a second-floor window in January 2023.
The jump paralysed Clancy from the waist down and she has attended the trial in a wheelchair. She is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of assault and battery. Prosecutors allege she made a calculated decision to intentionally kill her children.
Lawyers for Clancy, who does not dispute carrying out the killings but has pleaded not guilty to murder charges, say she was experiencing postpartum psychosis at the time.
Throughout her murder trial, Clancy has been held at Tewksbury Hospital, a state-run public psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts, about 20 miles (32km) from Boston.
Her trial, which began in July and which has been live streamed to the public, has stirred intense national interest as well as debate about postpartum depression and the mental health of new mothers.