A mother branded “Australia’s worst female serial killer” after being convicted of smothering her four children has been pardoned after nearly 20 years in jail.
Kathleen Folbigg, 55, spent almost two decades behind bars for murdering her children Patrick, Sarah and Laura – aged from eight months to 19 months –between 1991 and 1999.
She was also found guilty in 2003 of the manslaughter of her first-born child, Caleb, who was just 19 days old when he died in Newcastle, north of Sydney, in 1989.
