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UK mom admits killing her 3 kids in case eerily similar to Lindsay Clancy

By Jesse O’Neill4 min readNew York Post
UK mom admits killing her 3 kids in case eerily similar to Lindsay ClancyUK mom admits killing her 3 kids in case eerily similar to Lindsay Clancy

"It is my view you would not have done what you have if you were well," the judge told the UK mom.

A British woman admitted Friday to stabbing her three young children to death while in the throes of “acute psychosis” in a case eerily similar to killer mom Lindsay Clancy.

Former nurse Yasmeen Ali, 44, was initially charged with three counts of murder for the 2024 slaughter of her kids Fares Bash, 7, Joury Bash, 3, and 9-month-old baby Mohammed Bash, just six days after she had been released from a psychiatric hospital in Bristol, England, according to the Sun.

But she reached a deal that instead saw her pleading guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility after experts testified she was suffering “acute psychosis.”

three children
Yasmeen Ali (not pictured) admitted to killing her children Fares Bash, 7; Joury Bash, 3 and Mohammed Bash, 9-months-old, but was spared a prison sentence after a court found she was suffering from “acute psychosis.”
Fares, Joury and Mohammed.
After stabbing her kids in their chests and necks, Ali slashed her own neck — and was found in a “very disturbed state, looking like a zombie,” according to the disturbing reports.
A young boy wearing a yellow and black patterned outfit giving a double thumbs up.
The children’s deaths came just six days after she had been released from a psychiatric hospital in Bristol, England, according to reports.

After stabbing her kids in their chests and necks, Ali slashed her own neck — and was found in a “very disturbed state, looking like a zombie,” according to the disturbing reports.

The mom wept in court Friday as she was sentenced to stay indefinitely at a secure psychiatric hospital by a judge who accepted that her horrific act was “almost entirely attributable to mental disorder.”

“It is my view you would not have done what you have if you were well,” Judge Thomas Linden told the mom during her sentencing.

The judge even offered his “condolences” to the mom and her husband for failings of local mental health services, the Bristol Post reported.

murder scene
Police Forensic Officers stand near a cordoned-off house in Blaise Walk in Sea Mills, Bristol, UK, on Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, the morning after the three children were found dead in the house. Simon Chapman/LNP/Shutterstock
Police officers behind a police cordon at the scene in Blaise Walk in Sea Mills, Bristol, UK.
Police leave after giving a press conference at the scene in Blaise Walk in Sea Mills, Bristol, UK, on Feb. 19, 2024, the morning after three children were found dead in a house on Feb. 18. Simon Chapman/LNP/Shutterstock

“As the victim personal statement clearly demonstrates, what has happened is a tragedy from which neither of you will recover and which causes both of you unimaginable pain in your daily lives,” Linden said at sentencing.

The case is strikingly similar to that of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom who strangled her three young children in 2023 before attempting to kill herself by jumping out of a second-story window.

vigil
A vigil was held for the three young siblings in Bristol, UK on Feb. 23, 2024. Simon Chapman/LNP/Shutterstock
Lindsay Clancy looks on in court.
Yasmeen Ali’s case had eerie parallels to the triple-murder case of Lindsay Clancy, seen here looking on as Judge William Sullivan declares a mistrial in Plymouth, Mass. Sept. 4, 2026. via REUTERS

Clancy’s defense similarly blamed it on mental illness and postpartum psychosis.

Prosecutors still insisted on trying her for murder, which ended in a mistrial with all but one of the jurors accepting her defense of psychosis.

Prosecutors were expected to decide at a hearing next month if they would retry her for murder, file downgraded charges, or drop the case altogether.

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