{"id":756870,"date":"2026-09-01T17:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T17:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/756870\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T17:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T17:38:12","slug":"jury-in-lindsay-clancy-trial-unable-to-reach-unanimous-verdict-but-will-keep-deliberating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/756870\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury in Lindsay Clancy trial unable to reach unanimous verdict but will keep deliberating"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why this case feels so personal to so manypublished at 17:05 BST<\/p>\n

17:05 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Shaimaa Khalil
North America correspondent<\/p>\n

\"AImage source, Reuters<\/p>\n

The case has touched a nerve, particularly among women with personal experience of postpartum mental illness. During the trial, hundreds of Lindsay Clancy\u2019s supporters have gathered outside the courthouse – some cheering as the vehicle carrying her arrived.<\/p>\n

Some spoke about feeling ignored or dismissed when they sought help and said they saw something of themselves in the young mother at the centre of this trial.<\/p>\n

Their stories reflect a wider concern that postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis can be missed, misunderstood or misdiagnosed, with mothers\u2019 warnings not always taken seriously until they reach crisis point.<\/p>\n

For Clancy\u2019s supporters, this case is about more than one woman\u2019s criminal responsibility. It is also about whether a mother in severe mental distress repeatedly asked for help and whether the healthcare system failed to recognise how ill she had become.<\/p>\n

Others say the children are being overshadowed and the strength of feeling is just as evident on the other side of this deeply divisive case. <\/p>\n

Critics argue that, at its heart, this is the story of three young children killed by their mother. The last time their father saw them alive, Cora and Dawson were sitting on the sofa eating chicken nuggets as he left to collect dinner and medication. Callan was just eight months old. <\/p>\n

Some believe the intense sympathy for Lindsay Clancy and the public campaign supporting her has overshadowed the children and the lives taken from them.<\/p>\n

They argue that mental illness may help explain what happened, but it must not make Cora, Dawson and Callan secondary figures in the story of their own deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why this case feels so personal to so manypublished at 17:05 BST 17:05 BST Shaimaa KhalilNorth America correspondent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-756870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756870","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=756870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}