Diary entry written weeks before mum killed her three children revealed in court

Lindsay Clancy is on trial for killing her three children (Picture: REUTERS)

A Massachusetts mother who killed her three young children with exercise bands before attempting to take her own life was ‘desperate for a break’ according to entries written in her journal before the killings.

Lindsay Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder over the deaths of Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan.

While Lindsay’s defence team do not deny that she killed her children, they say she wasn’t criminally responsible because she was experiencing extreme postpartum psychosis, a rare mental illness that causes hallucinations, delusions and extreme mood swings.

After strangling her children, she reportedly cut her wr...