成人快手

A woman once branded "Australia's worst female serial killer" has been pardoned after new evidence suggested she did not kill her four infant children.

Kathleen Folbigg spent 20 years in prison after a jury found she killed sons Caleb and Patrick and daughters Sarah and Laura over a decade.

But a recent inquiry heard scientists believe they may have died naturally.

The 55-year-old's case has been described as one of Australia's greatest miscarriages of justice.

Ms Folbigg, who has always maintained her innocence, was jailed for 25 years in 2003 for the murders of three of the children, and the manslaughter of her first son, Caleb.

Each child died suddenly between 1989 and 1999, aged between 19 days and 19 months, with prosecutors at her trial alleging she had smothered them.

Owen Bennett Jones has been speaking to Professor Stephen Cordner at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine compiled a report ten years ago re-examining the original medical evidence and casting doubt on the conviction.

(Picture: Kathleen Folbigg appears via video link during a convictions inquiry at the NSW Coroners Court, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 01 May 2019. An Inquiry continues into convictions of 'baby killer' Kathleen Megan Folbigg, who was imprisoned for at least 25 years in October 2003 after being found guilty of killing her four infant children. EPA/JOEL CARRETT)

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