As Melody Cassan nurtured her three children as they grew up, she was distressed by the secret knowledge they had been deprived of an older brother.Her barrister, Rachel Brand QC, said in mitigation: "She watched her subsequent children toddling, reaching school age and becoming adults."All the time she was thinking 'you should have had a big brother'."Her bottled-up distress also manifested itself in attempts on her own life; the first was within a year of the offence, when she...
