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‘No doubt’ depressed mom who drowned children killed herself in Australia: lawyer
EDMONTON – The lawyer for a mother who drowned her two children in a bathtub in rural Alberta says the woman had become emotional at the christening of a friend’s new baby before she killed herself in Australia.
Peter Royal says Allyson McConnell was also upset about the Alberta Crown’s upcoming appeal of her manslaughter conviction.
McConnell’s trial heard that she was depressed and suicidal when she drowned her two young sons in the town of Millet, south of Edmonton, in 2010.
She served 15 months in a psychiatric hospital before she was deported back to her native Australia in April.
Media in Australia have reported that the body of a woman believed to be McConnell was found at the bottom of a bridge in West Gosford, north of Sydney.
Royal says he’s sure the dead woman is McConnell because her identification was found with the body.
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