{"id":629286,"date":"2026-06-09T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629286\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:53:12","slug":"wiltshire-woman-found-not-guilty-of-murdering-her-elderly-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629286\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiltshire woman found not guilty of murdering her elderly mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nicholas Corsellis, for the defence, said on Monday that Glowka was not making rational judgements because she was &#8220;acting in the fog of despair&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also said she was &#8220;devoted to her mother&#8221; but was &#8220;increasingly struggling to cope&#8221;, and her actions had &#8220;broke the habits of a lifetime and everything she had lived for&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She made rational decisions in the morning, but this contrasts with the middle of the night when that function was terribly and substantially impaired,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Lucy Bacon, a consultant forensic psychiatrist, previously told the court Glowka&#8217;s thoughts were &#8220;strongly coloured by her depressive illness&#8221; but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c9q388y0vjjo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she was capable of forming a rational judgement.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bacon agreed with fellow psychiatrist Dr Richard Latham that her depression also did not substantially impair her ability to exercise control or understand her own conduct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When cross-examined by the prosecution, Glowka accepted she was in control and understood what she was doing, and that she was capable of making rational judgements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicholas Corsellis, for the defence, said on Monday that Glowka was not making rational judgements because she was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-629286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}