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Mother who dropped baby down 40ft chute 'had post-natal depression' Mother who dropped baby down 40ft chute 'had postnatal depression'
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A mother accused of dropping her six-day-old baby down a tower block rubbish chute was suffering from a psychosis linked to post-natal depression, her barrister has told a court.A mother accused of dropping her six-day-old baby down a tower block rubbish chute was suffering from a psychosis linked to post-natal depression, her barrister has told a court.
Jurors were told Jaymin Abdulrahman's condition was so severe it prevented her from forming an intent to kill or cause serious injury to her daughter who fell more than 40ft (12.2m) into a bin store.Jurors were told Jaymin Abdulrahman's condition was so severe it prevented her from forming an intent to kill or cause serious injury to her daughter who fell more than 40ft (12.2m) into a bin store.
Abdulrahman, 25, denies charges of attempted murder, causing grievous bodily harm with intent and inflicting grievous bodily harm.Abdulrahman, 25, denies charges of attempted murder, causing grievous bodily harm with intent and inflicting grievous bodily harm.
Her daughter, whose name cannot be published for legal reasons, suffered several skull fractures and brain injuries in the fall at flats in Wolverhampton in September last year.Her daughter, whose name cannot be published for legal reasons, suffered several skull fractures and brain injuries in the fall at flats in Wolverhampton in September last year.
Opening her client's case to a jury at Birmingham crown court, defence barrister Rachel Brand QC urged the panel not to view Abdulrahman as a "monster". The lawyer conceded that the jury members' hearts must have sank when they heard details of how the newborn infant had been injured.Opening her client's case to a jury at Birmingham crown court, defence barrister Rachel Brand QC urged the panel not to view Abdulrahman as a "monster". The lawyer conceded that the jury members' hearts must have sank when they heard details of how the newborn infant had been injured.
Brand told the panel of seven men and five women: "You must have thought 'oh no, why was I called for jury service on this upsetting case'? Your stomachs must have churned as you watched those computer reconstructions of the baby going down the chute.Brand told the panel of seven men and five women: "You must have thought 'oh no, why was I called for jury service on this upsetting case'? Your stomachs must have churned as you watched those computer reconstructions of the baby going down the chute.
"You may well be asking yourselves, 'what kind of monster could do a thing like that to a six-day old baby'? "You may well be asking yourselves: 'What kind of monster could do a thing like that to a six-day-old baby'?
"All I am asking you to do is to keep an open mind about the evidence you are going to hear in the next stage of this case. You are going to hear evidence in the next few days that shows this defendant was suffering from post-natal depression." "All I am asking you to do is to keep an open mind about the evidence you are going to hear in the next stage of this case. You are going to hear evidence in the next few days that shows this defendant was suffering from postnatal depression."
Submitting that Abdulrahman's depression was so severe it amounted to a condition called postpartum psychosis, Brand told jurors: "What we are going to invite you to consider is that when this happened, Jaymin Abdulrahman was not truly capable of making a rational, a considered judgment about things that she did."Submitting that Abdulrahman's depression was so severe it amounted to a condition called postpartum psychosis, Brand told jurors: "What we are going to invite you to consider is that when this happened, Jaymin Abdulrahman was not truly capable of making a rational, a considered judgment about things that she did."
Describing Abdulrahman, who came to the UK from Iraq in 2011, as a competent and loving mother, Brand also argued that her illness meant she was not capable of "forming an intent to either kill or cause really serious injury to her baby".Describing Abdulrahman, who came to the UK from Iraq in 2011, as a competent and loving mother, Brand also argued that her illness meant she was not capable of "forming an intent to either kill or cause really serious injury to her baby".
The case continues.The case continues.
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