Kathleen Folbigg

Child killer Kathleen Folbigg will have another chance at freedom after the NSW Attorney-General recommended a new inquiry look into her conviction.

The new inquiry will be the second one ordered by Mr Speakman. Mr Speakman said the new evidence was enough to trigger the inquiry. “At the conclusion of the inquiry, Mr Bathurst will prepare a report,” Mr Speakman said.

Scientists had called for Folbigg's release after it was discovered two daughters had a genetic variant that can cause sudden death.

But certainly there was enough of a question or doubt to justify some form of intervention.” On Wednesday the NSW attorney general, Mark Speakman, announced the inquiry would consider whether there was “question or doubt” over her conviction in 2003 for the murder of three of her children and the manslaughter of a fourth. “But the evidence clearly in my view reaches the necessary threshold for some kind of intervention; it certainly rises to the level of question or doubt.

Another inquiry will be held into the guilt of Kathleen Folbigg, the Australian woman convicted and jailed for killing her four children.

However, he said there was “no completed study” as to the functional effects of the mutation. He said there was “enough of a question or doubt” that the new evidence justified the inquiry. He said that a pardon recommended “behind closed doors” would undermine confidence in the judicial process.

The NSW attorney-general will make a statement about convicted child murderer Kathleen Folbigg, more than a year on...

Open justice is a key underpinning of our justice system, so in the end, a simple pardon without that open and transparent process would not be appropriate." "It will weigh on all our shoulders, the pain and suffering that the Folbigg family has been through, particularly Craig Folbigg," Mr Speakman said. He joined the newsroom of the Newcastle Herald in 2017 from the Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he worked from 2015 to 2016. McCarthy has worked as a journalist in regional NSW since 2013. He joined the newsroom of the Newcastle Herald in 2017 from the Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he worked from 2015 to 2016. McCarthy has worked as a journalist in regional NSW since 2013. "We have had a trial by a jury in a public space. The petition to pardon Folbigg on the back of the paper's assertions was delivered to the NSW Governor, Margaret Beazley, in March last year. "But the evidence clearly, in my view, reaches the necessary threshold for some kind of intervention. Mutations in the gene are one of the best-recognised causes of sudden death in infancy and childhood. "Ms Folbigg's lawyers have asked for a pardon. "I can well-understand why members of the public may shake their heads and roll their eyes about the number of chances Ms Folbigg has had to clear her name," Mr Speakman said.

Child killer Kathleen Folbigg will have another chance at freedom after the NSW Attorney-General recommended a new inquiry look into her conviction.

The new inquiry will be the second one ordered by Mr Speakman. “At the conclusion of the inquiry, Mr Bathurst will prepare a report,” Mr Speakman said. Mr Speakman said the new evidence was enough to trigger the inquiry.

A second public inquiry into the conviction of Kathleen Folbigg has been announced by NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman.

That inquiry upheld Folbigg’s convictions. Folbigg was convicted of murdering three of her children, and for the manslaughter of a fourth child between 1989 and 1999. “Ms Folbigg’s representatives content that the new scientific evidence is compelling.

An inquiry will be held over Kathleen Folbigg's convictions, more than 20 years after the deaths of her four children.

The NSW governor has ordered an inquiry into the convictions of Kathleen Folbigg, who has spent nearly 20 years in jail for killing four of her children.

The previous inquiry took 11 months. "Ms Folbigg will get her chance to put a case before an inquiry who's a retired jurist, and that is a fairer way to go about things than me, as a politician behind closed doors, making a recommendation to the government," Mr Speakman said. Mr Speakman said it would be undermining the justice system if he were to bypass a second inquiry and recommend a pardon, and it was important that the process was open and transparent. "Tom Bathurst is a very efficient jurist and I'm sure he will run the inquiry as expeditiously as possible," he said. In order to be fair and equitable, the new inquiry will have to comprehensively consider that evidence, as well as fresh analysis of diary entries that were "cherry-picked" for evidence at the initial trial and first inquiry, Folbigg's solicitor Rhanee Rego said. NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman advised the governor to order an inquiry after she received a petition from prominent scientists in March last year, asking that Folbigg be pardoned

Kathleen Folbigg has spent almost two decades behind bars for the murders of her children Patrick, Sarah and Laura between 1991 and 1999.

* JULY 2019 - Inquiry finds no reasonable doubt to Folbigg's convictions. Brother Patrick (right) died a year later aged eight months The petition refers to developments in genetic science in respect of the CALM2 genetic mutation found in Sarah and Laura Folbigg. He described the decision as difficult but one that had to be made as a dismissal of the petition 'would not be a proper option.' Kathleen Folbigg has spent almost two decades behind bars for the murders of her children Patrick, Sarah and Laura - aged from eight months to 19 months - between 1991 and 1999. - Second public inquiry to be held into the convictions of Kathleen Folbigg