In Australia, a woman was imprisoned innocently for twenty years. She was accused of killing her four children. However, later research revealed that she had passed on to two daughters a rare genetic mutation that can lead to cardiac arrhythmias and sudden death. This is not certain about her two sons, but they may also have died of natural causes.
The case was subsequently reopened. Chief Justice Andrew Bell of the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal ruled that evidence from the original trial against the Australian was not reliable. Furthermore, scientific findings have now shown that the two boys and two girls may have died of natural causes. The woman was therefore pardoned and released from prison.
Kathleen Folbigg said outside the courthouse in Sydney that she was grateful for modern science and genetics which had now provided answers to how her children died. “But even in 1999 we had legal answers to prove my innocence. But they were ignored and rejected.”
Death between 19 days and one and a half years
The now 56-year-old was found guilty of murdering her four children in 2003. These died suddenly over a ten-year period (1989 to 1999) between the ages of 19 days and one and a half years. The case caused a stir, with the mother described as “Australia’s worst serial killer”. She was sentenced to 40 years in prison, but the sentence was later reduced.
Source: Krone
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