Kathleen Folbigg was convicted of the murder of daughters Sarah and Laura and son Patrick, and the manslaughter of another son, Caleb. Twenty years on, a professor has named the 'rare' condition that her daughters had.
British scientists found an"incredibly rare" genetic mutation could have been responsible for the deaths of two children after their mother, who was originally jailed for killing them, has now been pardoned.in 2003 of the murders of daughters Sarah and Laura and son Patrick, along with the manslaughter of another son, Caleb. The four died separately over the course of a decade, aged between 19 days and 19 months old.
A second inquiry, launched in 2022, provided fresh evidence that suggested the girls' deaths were caused by a genetic condition.Professor Carola Vinuesa, from the Francis Crick Institute - an independent charity, established to be a UK flagship for discovery research in biomedicine - told Sky News how her team was able to uncover what could have been the real cause of the girls' deaths.
"In the current registry there are only 134 cases of calmodulinopathy in the whole world. It is very rare and extremely unfortunate that this family had this particular mutation." Her convictions still stand for now, though, with the Court of Appeals still waiting on a final report from the inquiry that could recommend they be quashed completely.that counted scientists and medics among its signatoriesCaleb was born in 1989 and died 19 days later in what a jury determined as a case of manslaughter.
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