Helena Burke
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669 appearances
18 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
Helena Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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LähiTapiola, on the same side.
We can't say with any certainty what exactly they are disagreeing about because the jury are not identified in this case.
We don't know the makeup of their current positions, what they're currently thinking about a verdict.
Although we have heard a little more today than perhaps previously about this deadlock in the sense that before the jurors were sent back for their final deliberations of the day, the judge did remind the jury to abide by the law regarding the principle that somebody must be proved guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
Lindsay Clancy's lawyer, after that reminder by the judge, expressed frustration.
He had been seemingly quite irritated in the courtroom earlier.
He alleged that Wanderer was refusing to listen to the law when it came to this principle of reasonable doubt.
Now, we don't know whether that is definitely the case.
As I say, we can't say that with any certainty, but that is what her lawyer has alleged.
What we do know is that this has now been more than 36 hours of the jury deliberating and deliberating and still not reaching a verdict after two attempts.
They have a third attempt to try and come to some kind of consensus.
If they don't, there is a chance that this could be declared a mistrial.
There are lots of different options that could be the outcome of this trial.
The first is that she could be found guilty of a first-degree murder, which would carry a sentence of life in prison without parole, the most serious verdict that she could receive.
There is a chance that she could be found guilty, but of a less severe murder,
crime, second degree murder, for example, which does have the chance of parole or manslaughter, which could carry a lesser sentence as well.
She could, though, also be found not guilty by reason of insanity, which is what her defence has been centring around.
Essentially, her defence argue that because she was suffering from
severe postpartum psychosis at the time, a mental health condition that can affect some mothers after giving birth.
She wasn't in a fit state of mind when she killed her three children.
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