Kathleen Folbigg was convicted of the murder of daughters Sarah and Laura and son Patrick, and the manslaughter of another son, Caleb. After 20 years in prison, she has been pardoned.
A woman jailed for 20 years over the deaths of her four children has been pardoned after a judicial review.back in 2003.
The murders were of daughters Sarah and Laura and son Patrick, and the manslaughter was of another son, Caleb. Folbigg, now 55, maintained her innocence and said they had died of natural causes - but a 2019 inquiry into her conviction reinforced her guilt. But a second inquiry, launched in 2022 after fresh evidence suggested two of the children's deaths were caused by a genetic mutation, has now led to her being pardoned.found reasonable doubt in each convictionShe was released from a prison in Grafton, New South Wales, on Monday, a decade before her jail term was due to expire and five years before she would have become eligible for parole.
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