Wrongfully jailed for 20 years, Australia’s ‘most hated woman’ likely to receive record compensation

Kathleen Folbigg outside the NSW court of criminal appeal after her convictions were quashed on Thursday. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

Kathleen Folbigg was reviled as a baby killer and Australia’s “most hated woman” when she was convicted in 2003 of murdering three of her children and for the manslaughter of another.

But on Thursday, Folbigg’s convictions were quashed by an appeals court following an inquiry that examined new scientific evidence and found there was reasonable doubt of her guilt.