Killer father felt left out after his baby girl arrived.

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Mark Bruton Young smothered his six month-old daughter, having researched the ways he could get rid of her, and whilst apparently suffering post natal depression.

He was also angry with his wife and wished they could go back to being a couple.

Is it post natal depression or sociopathy?

Mr Dunkels added: 'We suggest this was an attempt by him to conceal from police what he had already done on his work computer. 'This software would delete history and saved searches. He ran this software at that time in an attempt to purge his computer of incriminating evidence.'

She's as bad as he is.

That little baby looks so happy. Her little feet.

I presume he'll be banged up for a very long time though.

In which case she will be free of him.

Can't decide if she's a victim or as bad as him.

mrsravelstein 'can't think of another word for him than 'evil'' - I would go with murderer.

Premeditated, tried to cover his tracks. Lets hope he is duly convicted by an utterly appalled jury and spends a long time behind bars. The bastard.

i just can't get my head around her standing by him, even if there is emotional abuse going on. the line has to be drawn somewhere, surely? and that photograph of them makes me feel physically sick.

what a complete fucking insult to anyone that's ever suffered from PND. it's not seriously going to hold up in court is it?

According to that article, the only person who thinks he was suffering from PND is him. Planning is premeditation. You can't be charged with manslaughter due to temporary insanity if you've planned to kill someone, that's murder surely?

In the photo they look like a couple grieving for accidental death of their baby.

Something tells me his defence argument isn't going to get him off.

I have no words, really.

lazy and stupid. surely if you wee planning a murder using the terms refeenced you would go to a public library.

not the point i know.

He has been charged with murder, not manslaughter.

"In the photo they look like a couple grieving for accidental death of their baby."

Yes, it looks like that to me - as if he's orchestrated it to look that way. He appears to be pulling her in - I hope the jury see through his manipulation.

I found this truly shocking and upsetting. Clearly from the way he was researching baby deaths it was pre-meditated. I really don't see how it could be anything other than than -and how his wife could stand by him after he'd killed their baby is beyond anything I could ever imagine.

He sounds like a very petulant and spoiled little boy who doesn't like having to share mummy's attention.

Fucking horrendous.

No other words.

Christ. What a cunt.

Sorry catsareevil - I meant I presume he's pleading manslaughter rather than murder if he's making out he had PND

"i just can't get my head around her standing by him, even if there is emotional abuse going on. the line has to be drawn somewhere, surely?"

Yes - you'd think him killing the baby would be the last straw for her no matter what abuse he might have put her through. It appears he has a steely grip on her with his bottomless pit of need.

I'm sure he'll get all the lovin' he needs in prison once they all find out what he's in there for.

He's pleading not guilty isn't he? I assume the prosecution are mentioning the PND by way of a corroborating motive and his wife is standing by him because she believes he's innocent and their child died from cot death. It took over a year for him to be arrested and charged.

From whats been reported I havent been able to work out yet what his argument is, whether it will be that he didnt do it at all, or that he did do it but was depressed. It will be interesting to see how the court case progresses.

I don't buy the PND arguement. He seems to have not only spent time planning the murder of a child, his own child, but also plotted how to get away with it. That doesn't seem to me like someone who flew off the handle due to mental illness, it seems like a calculated murder.

I'm not going to pretend I'm an expert in PND. I know people act in all sorts of different ways when faced with all types of depression. I went to the doctor for help when my DD was 3 weeks old in utter despair because I felt so low and wanted more than anything to be a good mother to my baby and to not feel the way I did about her and myself. I never, ever wished her any harm but I'm ashamed to admit at one point I wanted her to not have been born. For the life of me I can't remember why. I am so, so glad my GP and HV were so supportive and helped me.

Like I said, I don't buy his explanation for why he did what he did. He sounds like a jealous control freak. A murderous one. If he actually was suffering PND it's a shame he didn't seek help and support and very possibly save his beautiful little baby girl from an agonising death.

When I had PND I thought of a lot of ways to kill myself but it never once crossed my mind to harm my baby.

I don't know how it would be possible to still love somebody after what he has done.

It is indeed insulting to anyone who has suffered PND. In almost every case hear about which involves a baby's death, there always seems to be a "yeah, but" argument. He had PND, oh that's alright then, let him off

Bastard.

Exactly TheCrackFox it never crossed my mind to harm my baby at all. I love her so much, I just hated myself because I thought I was the worst mother ever.

I thought the few mothers with PND who did harm their babies/children did so in a sort of spur of the moment. They didn't plan it did they? Not months in advance. It makes me feel physically sick to think that this man went home to his beautiful daughter each night while plotting her death and how to get away with it. I really don't know how his wife can stand by him. She must really believe he didn't do it otherwise how can she even look at him let alone let him stand there next to her? Even if before all this he was seemed like a perfectly decent man, wouldn't there be some doubt when the prosecution were presenting evidence stating what he was searching online for?