The Latest Breaking News from Kathleen Folbigg

A medical expert has been questioned about a report on smotherings at an inquiry into Kathleen Folbigg, who was convicted of killing her children.

An expert tells an inquiry that diary entries in which Kathleen Folbigg said stress made her do terrible things were an outlet for a grieving mother and not an admission to killing her four children.

Kathleen Folbigg, 54, has spent 20 of a 25 year sentence in Australian prison after being found guilty of killing her three children, all the while maintaining that they died due to the symptoms of a rare genetic condition

Kathleen Folbigg complained of getting a "raw deal" in letters from prison tendered at an inquiry into her conviction.

Kathleen Folbigg lamented the "raw deal" she received and hoped for a "genetic miracle", in letters tendered to an inquiry into her child-killing convictions.

A genetics expert who visited Kathleen Folbigg in jail to get her medical history has told an inquiry a rare genetic mutation may have led to the deaths of two of her four children.

A retired Australian judge investigating the convictions of a mother in the deaths of her four children has been told there is a “reasonable hypothesis” that could cast doubt on her guilt

A special inquiry hears diary entries made by convicted killer about struggling with motherhood were characterised as "admissions of guilt", but a range of experts who have since analysed them have a very different view.

Folbigg was convicted in 2003 for the manslaughter of her son Caleb, and the murder of her other son Patrick and two daughters Sarah and Laura.