Tracy Chapman’s unyielding push against the judicial system galvanised a support network that helped secure justice for a childhood friend
She would ring Folbigg on most days during her friend’s two decades in prison, and would visit as often as she could. She did so even more when Folbigg was moved to a jail in Grafton near Chapman’s home., was her unyielding push against the weight of a judicial system and public opinion that believed Folbigg to be “Australia’s worst female serial killer”.
And while Chapman says she never thought about giving up, she was not expecting Folbigg to arrive at her farm on Monday morning. Donegan, who has known Folbigg since she was seven, jumped in the car to head to Chapman’s home as soon as she heard about the pardon. Sarah died when she was 10 months old in 1993, and is one of Folbigg’s two children found to have carried the rare genetic variation“We went to our obstetrician appointments together and when we were eight months pregnant we would tie up each other’s shoes because we couldn’t do it ourselves,” she says.
Donegan and Chapman began upping the ante in the lead up to the 2019 inquiry into her convictions. They started a Facebook group, called Justice for Kathleen Folbigg, and another friend had the slogan printed on T-shirts. This slowly grew to a fundraiser to support Chapman’s costs to attend the inquiry, and sending money into Folbigg’s inmate account, to an email campaign.
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