A ‘gentle and caring’ mum diagnosed with post-natal depression and psychosis killed her baby while on a walk from a mental health facility, a court heard.
Hayley Macfarlane, 39, took her daughter Evelyn for a permitted walk in Leeds after attending Christmas party at the facility where she was an in-patient, Sheffield Crown Court was told.
Craig Hassall KC, prosecuting, said she was in Hyde Park when she killed the five-month-old...