Folbigg pardon long overdue COMMENT

Front cover pohoto Kathleen Folbigg Courtesy of BBC

guilt.”

The jury in 2003 didn’t agree and neither did the 2019 inquiry which seemingly ignored the growing doubts about her guilt.

There is an almost medieval cruelty about her sentencing. After her four children died, she endures a trial where the main evidence of her guilt are manufactured character faws, she is branded Australia’s most hated woman and a serial killer and sentenced to 40 years in prison, most of those to be served, for her safety, in solitary confnement.

Luckily she had good supporters, like

Ms Chapman, who owns a farm between Coffs Harbour and Glenreagh, was at the Clarence Valley Correctional Centre gates to greet Ms Folbigg when she emerged.

She has offered her a place to live and most importantly has promised to help work on making changes to our legal system to ensure this sort of thing never happens again.

That work cannot begin too soon.