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Kathleen Folbigg inquiry adjourned as police produce 500 hours of recordings from bug planted in home

The second inquiry into Kathleen Folbigg's convictions for killing her four children is adjourned until April after police tabled, at the last minute, recordings from a listening device that was planted in Folbigg's Hunter Valley home in 1999.

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Psychiatrist quizzed over 'painful' Folbigg diaries

Tom Bathurst KC, who is helming the inquiry, described the line of questioning as an attempt to "undermine the statistical basis on which Dr Cordner has made his report".

Newcastle Herald

Professor quizzed over report 'bias' at Folbigg inquiry

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

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Kathleen Folbigg diary entries not an admission of guilt, inquiry hears

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.

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Child neurologist turned MP tells inquiry Kathleen Folbigg's son could have died from an undiagnosed disorder

Paediatric neurologist-turned MP Monique Ryan told the inquiry into Kathleen Folbigg's convictions one of her sons likely died from an undiagnosed disorder.

Newcastle Herald

Leading expert discredits evidence used to convict Kathleen Folbigg of murder

Leading world expert Peter Fleming discredits some of the evidence used to convict Kathleen Folbigg of murder, at her judicial inquiry.

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Disorder link to baby death, MP tells Folbigg inquiry

Paediatric neurologist-turned MP Monique Ryan told the inquiry into Kathleen Folbigg's convictions one of her sons likely died from an undiagnosed disorder.

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Kathleen Folbigg letters and diary entries released to inquiry reveal dark moments in jail

An inquiry examining the convictions of Kathleen Folbigg for killing her four children releases letters the mother wrote from jail about the "black moods" referred to in her diaries.

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Australia's worst female serial killer who murdered kids may be free in just five years

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

Daily Mirror

Baby killer Kathleen Folbigg's prison letters reveal her hope for a 'genetic miracle'

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

Newcastle Herald

Folbigg's hope for 'genetic miracle' in prison letters

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.

AAP

Kathleen Folbigg inquiry told gene mutation 'reasonable explanation' for death of two babies

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.

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Australian inquiry asks whether mom smothered her 4 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

The Independent UK

Kathleen Folbigg's diary entries show 'grieving mother' not guilty conscience, inquiry told

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.

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Newcastle Herald

'Reasonable' doubts of guilt in Folbigg inquiry

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.

AAP

Inquiry over deaths of Folbigg's four children resumes

Scientific evidence and Kathleen Folbigg's diaries will be examined in the next hearings of the second inquiry into her convictions for killing her children.

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Second Kathleen Folbigg inquiry could be a test case for law reform in Australia

A second judicial inquiry is due to resume tomorrow after hearing expert evidence that found baby killer Kathleen Folbigg and two of her children had the same genetic mutation.

The Independent UK

Experts blame genetic mutation for Australian girls' deaths

Two genetic experts have told an inquiry in Sydney that a rare genetic mutation probably caused the deaths of two daughters of an Australian woman who was convicted of killing them

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Kathleen Folbigg inquiry examines new scientific evidence and 'likely genetic mutation'

The inquiry hears from two genetic experts that believe a rare mutation was the "likely" cause of death of convicted baby killer Kathleen Folbigg's daughters, as the matter is adjourned for three months.

The New Daily

Gene variant could exonerate convicted child killer

Genetic variants identified in Kathleen Folbigg and her daughters were not found until years after she was convicted of killing her children.

Newcastle Herald

Genetic variants in Folbigg case found nine years after verdict

An inquiry into her conviction has heard from two Danish scientists about the calcium-binding protein calmodulin, an early building block of life.

AAP

Folbigg gene a 'bad variant', inquiry told

The rare genetic variant affecting an essential building block of life was discovered nine years after Kathleen Folbigg was convicted of killing her children.

The Guardian - AU

Rare gene shared by Kathleen Folbigg and two daughters may have contributed to deaths, inquiry hears

Lawyers for convicted mother said if the variant was a factor in the death of her daughters it would create reasonable doubt

The Independent UK

Australian inquiry asks whether mom smothered her 4 children

An Australian inquiry has began investigating whether a woman convicted of smothering her four children to death over a decade ago might be innocent

Newcastle Herald

Folbigg's DNA variant 'exceptionally rare', inquiry hears

Her lawyers have submitted the evidence indicates a genetic mutation could be responsible for the deaths of two of the children.

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