{"id":821966,"date":"2026-11-02T18:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/821966\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T18:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:34:08","slug":"prosecutors-indicate-plan-to-retry-lindsay-clancy-for-deaths-of-her-three-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/821966\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors indicate plan to retry Lindsay Clancy for deaths of her three children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clancy&#8217;s trial put postpartum psychosis in the spotlightpublished at 17:27 GMT<\/p>\n<p>17:27 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      Media caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What is postpartum psychosis and why is it central in the Lindsay Clancy trial?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The central question of Clancy\u2019s trial was whether or not she was criminally responsible at the time of her children&#8217;s deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prosecutors say she acted intentionally, while the defence argued that the 36-year-old mother was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis and could not understand the consequences of her actions at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In part, this case centres around this rare, but severe, condition. With postpartum psychosis, patients can experience mania and depression, as well as psychotic symptoms like delusions. In rare cases, people experiencing the condition may harm or kill themselves or other people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But unlike postpartum depression, it is not classified in the DSM-5 &#8211; the main guide that US medical practitioners use to diagnose mental health conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The absence of a clear, standardised DSM-5 definition of postpartum psychosis meant that the defence struggled to show Clancy&#8217;s psychotic state met a specific criteria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clancy&#8217;s trial put postpartum psychosis in the spotlightpublished at 17:27 GMT 17:27 GMT Media caption, What is postpartum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-821966","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\/821966","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=821966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}