‘No hate in her heart’: Kathleen Folbigg laughed, drank Kahlua, mesmerised by technology in first night out of prison

Folbigg's advocates now focused on getting convictions quashed when an inquiry into her case reports in coming weeks

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Tracy Chapman grinned widely as she recounted sitting down for dinner with her best friend, Kathleen Folbigg, after 20 years.

The pair shared a pizza and garlic bread, washed down with a nostalgic Kahlua and Coke, on Folbigg's first night of freedom after being pardoned and released from jail. It followed two decades spent in prison over the deaths of her four children.

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