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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Kathleen Folbigg: Australian woman jailed for 20 years over deaths of her four children is pardoned

An Australian mother who spent 20 years in prison for allegedly killing her four children was pardoned and released on Monday based on new scientific evidence that they died by natural causes, as she had insisted.

Kathleen Megan Folbigg’s children died separately over the space of a decade, aged between 19 days and 19 months old.

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