A woman imprisoned for 20 years over the deaths of her four children was pardoned by New South Wales state yesterday after a judicial review found there was reasonable doubt about the original convictions.
Kathleen Megan Folbigg was convicted in 2003 for the murder of her three children and manslaughter of her fourth. Folbigg maintained her innocence and said the children had died of natural causes. An initial inquiry in 2019 found the evidence reinforced Folbigg’s guilt. However a second inquiry led by former chief justice Thomas Bathurst revisited her convictions in 2022 after new evidence suggested two of the children had a genetic mutation that could have caused their deaths.
New South Wales state Attorney General Michael Daley pardoned Folbigg after summary findings from the Bathurst inquiry found reasonable doubt for each conviction.
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