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A teaching assistant has been jailed to kill his two -year -old daughter, which he was immersed in a village pond.
42 -year -old Ellis McKay convicted the murder on September 10, 2023 for murder due to the low responsibility of her daughter, Annabel, just 300 meters from the family house.
After the incident at Kingsley, Bordeon, Hampshire, the youth was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, but died the next afternoon when the life support machine was shut down.
Adam Vaityingam KC, prosecution said: “The defendant had taken Anabel from his house to a nearby pond and caught him under water until she stopped struggling and died as a result of Anabel.”
He said that McKay then called 999 and “lied” to the officials and doctors that someone had found Anabel from his house before he found him in the pond.
McKay was imprisoned for four years.
While sentenced to McKay in the Winchester Crown Court, Judge, Mr. Justice Saini said that she was under “confusing” belief that “the best way to protect her (Anabel) from a bad mother was to kill her, you believed that she was not fruit -flower under your care and in fact, in fact, was suffering”.
He said: “You thought in your seduced position that it was some form of mercy for Annabel.”
The defendant did not enter a convicted petition on the charge of murder, which the court had heard was acceptable to the prosecution.
Reports from two psychiatrists revealed that she was suffering from a situation that meant that she was “unable to make a rational decision” at the time of the incident.
The court heard that McKay suffered postpartum (Post Natal) depression and anxiety after Annabel’s birth and was given anti-depression and anti-psychological drug.
Mr. Vaityingam said: “She had an illusion that she was a sub-standard and her daughter was much better without her.”
He said that in May 2022, McKay was attended by a mental health hospital for a month before giving discharge in community care.
Mr. Vaittiingam said that McKay had stopped taking anti-depression drugs in January 2023 and his mental deteriorated in the weeks before the deadly incident.
But he said that he had not told anyone and even participated in social programs like Annabel had to go to the Goodwood race during the day before drowning.
While reading the statement of his aggrieved influence in the court, Annabel’s father, Peter McKay, who works in IT sales, said: “His loss has had a devastating effect on every part of my life.
“I am deeply shocked about the thinking about how my daughter was killed, I am suffering how frightened she must have been, the pain she was tolerating and was a crisis.
“I think I constantly feel guilty that I was not at home the day she died.”
Mr. McKay said: “Annabel was my little friend, we had a very special bond, she was only two and a half years old, but she was very sympathetic, she was so careful, happy and positive, Annabel filled my life with love and happiness.”
Shri Vaittiingam told the court: “The murder was predetermined that Mrs. McKay had taken Annabel into the pond with the intention of killing her.
“He repeatedly lied and tried to cover what he did, he clearly recognized that what he had done was wrong and tried to go out of responsibility.
“Murder, of course, as any case of parents with a young child, misused faith when Peter McKay was out for the day and she was alone with Annabel.”
Patrick Gibbs Casey defended and said: “The first and most important thing to say is how sorry she has done for Mrs. McKay.
“She is sorry for taking Anabel’s life, she is sorry for all the pain she has done to anyone who knows and loves Anabel, she regrets every moment what happened and she wishes anything above in the world that Anabel was still alive.”
Wearing glasses and a white blouse and a dark blue jacket, McKay, who worked in a school for children between the ages of four and five, where Anabel also attended a nursery, sitting downwards because she was sentenced.
Mr. Gibbs said that McKay, who first had a senior teaching role when he had a family in London, faced several miscarriage and ectopic pregnancies during a five -year period before becoming pregnant with Annabel.