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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.

Former prisoner says she is eternally grateful to her friends and will always think of, grieve for and love her children

The Folbigg case is yet another demonstration that Australia needs a statutory body to investigate claims of wrongful conviction.

Kathleen Folbigg walks free in wake of scientific evidence that suggests natural causes may have led to a number of the deaths

Kathleen Folbigg was convicted of three counts of murder and one of manslaughter but has always maintained her innocence

The New South Wales Attorney-General Michael Daley today announced Kathleen Folbigg has been pardoned after having served 20 years for the murder of three of her infant children and the manslaughter of a fourth child. She has already been released, and won’t serve the rest of her 30-year sentence.

Attorney general says Folbigg’s lawyers can ‘initiate civil proceedings against the state of NSW for compensation’

The pardon was seen as the quickest way of getting Kathleen Folbigg out of prison, as new scientific evidence found that her four children died by natural causes as she had insisted.

An Australian woman who spent 20 years in prison was pardoned and released based on new scientific evidence that her four children died by natural causes as she had insisted