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Hayley MacFarlane killed baby while battling post-partum psychosis
A mother who smothered her baby to death with a muslin cloth while taking a walk from a mental health unit where she was being treated broke down as she was sentenced to a hospital order.
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Mother smothered her baby in park on break from mental health unit
Hayley MacFarlane, 39, was suffering from post-partum psychosis and depression when she killed five-month-old Evelyn in a Leeds park after walking out of a Christmas party in December 2023 ...
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Severely-depressed mum who killed her baby in Leeds park rang husband to say: 'She's gone'
Hayley Macfarlane convinced herself she had “failed” Evelyn and fatally injured the tot on the afternoon of December 20 last year in Woodhouse Moor Park. In a desperately sad text message she ...
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'Caring' mum suffering post-natal psychosis killed her baby during walk around the park
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.