Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial heard allegations that a prosecutor was overheard saying “shut her up” while Clancy cried during the display of autopsy photographs of her infant son. Her defence lawyer raised the claim in court, while the prosecution continued presenting evidence intended to challenge the argument that she was experiencing a psychotic break when her three children were killed in January 2023.

Clancy, 35, admits killing Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan, but denies murder on mental-health grounds. She had been prescribed 13 psychiatric medications in the preceding months for post-partum depression; a psychiatrist said she showed depression but no signs of psychosis, suicidal thoughts or homicidal thoughts the day before the deaths. Prosecutors also point to her sending her husband, Patrick, on an errand as evidence of planning, while Clancy survived an apparent suicide attempt and was left paralysed from the waist down.