Appeals court formally overturned mother’s convictions over her children’s four deaths in 2023, clearing her name

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Kathleen Folbigg has been compensated an “insulting” amount of $2m after spending two decades behind bars before an inquiry found she had been wrongfully convicted for killing her four children.

Folbigg, once referred to as among Australia’s worst serial killers, was convicted in 2003 and ordered to serve a minimum 25-year sentence for the suffocation murders of three of her children and manslaughter of a fourth.

Source: Guardian - World News