Twenty years after she was convicted over the deaths of her four young children, Kathleen Folbigg has been pardoned and freed from prison after a landmark inquiry concluded there is reasonable doubt about her guilt.
NSW Attorney-General Michael Daley said on Monday that he had received the preliminary findings of the head of the inquiry, former NSW chief justice Tom Bathurst, KC, on Friday.
He said he had notified Folbigg’s ex-husband Craig, and said he was “thinking of him today as well; it would be a tough day for him”. Each child died suddenly in NSW’s Hunter region between 1989 and 1999, aged between 19 days and 19 months.that “in the present case ... there is a significant body of evidence now to suggest reasonable possibilities of identifiable natural causes of death. That wasn’t there at the trial.”
Folbigg, 55, has served 20 years of a minimum 25-year prison sentence after being convicted in 2003 of the murder of three of her children, Patrick, Sarah, and Laura, and the manslaughter of her first child, Caleb, at the family’s homes.Folbigg’s existing non-parole period was set to expire on April 21, 2028.
Experts gave evidence at the second inquiry that the genetic variant shared by Sarah and Laura Folbigg– irregular heart rhythms – and sudden unexpected death. No expert ruled out the possibility the variant caused their deaths, but they were divided on whether it was likely.
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