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Evidence suggests the children may have died of natural causes

Watch: Kathleen Folbigg is glimpsing freedom, with the judicial inquiry into her convictions for killing her four children adjourning just one day after

New genetic evidence shows a "reasonable doubt" over Kathleen Folbigg's convictions for killing her four children, after a second judicial inquiry hears months of evidence.

Former NSW chief justice Tom Bathurst KC is heading the inquiry, triggered by a petition from scientists.

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.

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".

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.

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