Kathleen Folbigg may be a step closer to receiving compensation for the 20 years she spent behind bars over the deaths of her four young children.
Kathleen Folbigg may be a step closer to receiving compensation for the 20 years she spent behind bars over the deaths of her four young children after a landmark inquiry referred her case to the state’s top appeal court.
He said he did not regard Folbigg’s diaries, a key plank of the prosecution’s case against her in her 2003 trial, as containing reliable admissions of guilt. ‘The evidence … at most, demonstrates that Ms Folbigg was a loving and caring mother who occasionally became angry and frustrated.’Lindy and Michael Chamberlain were pardoned in 1987 over the death of their daughter Azaria and their convictions quashed in 1988. They received an ex gratia payment of $1.3 million from the Northern Territory government in 1992.
In his final report, Bathurst said submissions made on behalf of Folbigg’s ex-husband Craig, who testified against her in the 2003 trial, “do not persuade me that there is not reasonable doubt that Ms Folbigg was guilty of the crimes for which she was convicted”. Bathurst said he had “concluded that there is an identifiable cause of the death of Patrick, Sarah and Laura” and that “once that conclusion is reached, any probative force of the coincidence and tendency evidence is substantially diminished”.
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