Once labelled 'Australia's worst female serial killer', Kathleen Folbigg is now a free woman after she was pardoned. Here's what could happen next.
Now 55 years old, Folbigg was once dubbed 'Australia's worst female serial killer', but has always maintained that she was innocent of killing her four children, in a case that has gripped Australia for decades.
Kathleen Folbigg was 35 years old when she was convicted of murder and manslaughter and sentenced to 40 years in prison with a 25-year non-parole period.Known as Meadow’s law, the theory developed by controversial British pediatrician Roy Meadow held that three or more sudden infant deaths in one family were always the result of murder, unless proven otherwise.
NSW Attorney-General Michael Daley recommended to Governor Margaret Beazley that Folbigg be pardoned, and the recommendation was accepted. "That means that most likely there will be no objector in terms of her application to have her convictions quashed in the criminal court of appeal," Ms Higginson said.The pardon followed two inquiries into Folbigg’s convictions.
“On the whole of the body of evidence before this inquiry there is a reasonable doubt as to Ms Folbigg’s guilt," Counsel Assisting the Inquirer Sophie Callan SC said in April.Australia's peak science body has called for an overhaul to the nation's criminal justice system following the pardoning of Folbigg.Chief executive Anna-Maria Arabia said reforms were needed to allow science to inform decision-making, and prevent further miscarriages of justice.
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