A woman who spent 20 years in prison was pardoned and released Monday based on new scientific evidence that her four children died by natural causes — as she had insisted.
FILE - Kathleen Folbigg appears via video link during a convictions inquiry at the NSW Coroners Court, Sydney, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. New South Wales Attorney-General Michael Daley pardoned Folbigg on Monday, June 5, 2023, after spending 20 years in prison for killing her four children after being advised there was reasonable doubt about Folbigg's guilt based on new scientific evidence that the deaths could have been from natural causes.
Australian state governors are figureheads who act on instructions of governments. New South Wales Attorney-General Michael Daley said former justice Tom Bathurst had advised him last week there was reasonable doubt about Folbigg’s guilt based on new scientific evidence that the deaths could have been from natural causes.
Bathurst has conducted the second inquiry into Folbigg's guilt, initiated by a petition that said it was “based on significant positive evidence of natural causes of death” and signed by 90 scientists, medical practitioners and related professionals.Folbigg was serving a 30-year prison sentence that was to expire in 2033. She would have become eligible for parole in 2028.
Myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart, was also a “reasonably possible cause” of Laura’s death, Callan said.
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