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Gabrielle Canon and agencies

Lindsay Clancy trial: psychologist says he doubts claim she was hallucinating

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Forensic psychologist Dr Kirk Heilbrun on the witness stand at the Plymouth superior court trial of Lindsay Clancy, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Monday. Photograph: Greg Derr/Reuters

With just days to go before the murder trial for Lindsay Clancy concludes, a forensic psychologist called by the prosecution testified on Monday that he did not believe she was experiencing acute psychosis when she killed her three children.

Kirk Heilbrun, who reportedly performed psychiatric tests on Clancy in April, told the court that he questioned her claims that a hallucinated voice commanded her to commit the act, and that he believed she took their lives so they wouldn’t “suffer” after she killed herself.

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