Judge says Alice Mackey, 42, believed it ‘was some form of act of mercy’ to kill her daughter, Annabel
A teaching assistant who drowned her two-year-old daughter in a pond on a Hampshire common after suffering from postpartum psychosis has been jailed.
Alice Mackey, 42, wrongly believed she was a bad mother and was under the delusion that the best way of protecting her child, Annabel, was to kill her, Winchester crown court heard.
The court was told that Mackey had a sense of looking down on herself from outside her body as she killed her daughter. “It wasn’t really me,” she told her legal team.
After drowning Annabel, Mackey went back to her house 300 metres away, in the village of Kingsley, dialled 999 and claimed her child had been abducted.
