Article 6Z5K4 Kathleen Folbigg’s $2m compensation ‘a moral affront’ after two decades in jail for wrongful convictions, lawyer says

Kathleen Folbigg’s $2m compensation ‘a moral affront’ after two decades in jail for wrongful convictions, lawyer says

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Jordyn Beazley
from World news | The Guardian on (#6Z5K4)

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

Kathleen Folbigg has been compensated an insulting" amount of $2m after spending two decades in prison 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.

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