'Blood everywhere' - Clancy's ex-husband testifies in children murder trial

'Blood everywhere' - Clancy's ex-husband testifies in children murder trialImage source, ReutersPublished5 minutes agoWarning: This story contains distressing details and discussion of attempted suicidePatrick Clancy, the ex-husband of the Massachusetts woman who is on trial for killing her three children, has recounted the harrowing details of the day he returned home and saw "blood everywhere" inside his bedroom.Testifying on Wednesday, he recalled the house was unusually quiet that day and said the bedroom was locked, adding: "That's when I knew something was wrong."He found his wife Lindsay Clancy lying in the yard after she jumped out of the second-floor window, with "deep cuts on her wrists... and a red line across her neck".Prosecutors said Clancy did that after strangling her children with fitness bands in their home's basement in January 2023. She has pleaded not guilty.Lyndsay Clancy has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder over the deaths of Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan.Her legal team has argued she was "suffering from psychosis at the time" and does not dispute she carried out the killings.Clancy, who has attended both days of her ex-husband's testimony - seated in a wheelchair after being paralysed from her jump - became visibly emotional as he testified on Wednesday. The court's camera showed her holding her lawyer's hand, head turned away from view, wiping tears from her eyes. Prosecutors questioned Patrick Clancy in great detail over the incidents that day, as they seek to convince the 12-member jury that his ex-wife made a "calculated" decision to kill their children.Clancy recalled that on 24 January 2023, he left their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts and returned later with takeout food. Finding the house "unusually quiet", he checked multiple rooms, including the basement briefly, before heading upstairs to...