An inquiry into the 2003 conviction of notorious serial killer Kathleen Folbigg has reinforced her guilt, a judge has found.
The mother, who has previously been dubbed “Australia’s most hated woman”, has remained behind bars since 2003 after being convicted of murdering three of her children and the manslaughter of another.
The four, aged between just 19 days and 19 months, were found dead in the decade from 1989, however Folbigg has always maintained her innocence and has suggested that her children all died of natural causes.
However, Reginald Blanch, retired judge and head of the inquiry, concluded he did not have “any reasonable doubt as to the guilt of Kathleen Megan Folbigg for the offences of which she was convicted”, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
“It remains that the only conclusion reasonably open is that somebody intentionally caused harm to the children, and smothering was the obvious method,” Blanch’s report said.
“The evidence pointed to no person other than Ms Folbigg.”
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In a statement, NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman said he had spoken to Craig Folbigg, Folbigg’s ex-husband and the babies’ father, regarding the report’s findings.
“I hope that the conclusion of the inquiry, and the report’s findings, might provide comfort in some way to the relatives of Caleb, Patrick, Sarah and Laura, and will dispel community concern regarding Ms Folbigg’s convictions.”
Meanwhile, it comes after Folbigg claimed “supernatural powers” took the lives of three of her children who were found dead in the decade from 1989. Speaking in NSW Coroners Court in May as part of an inquiry into the case, the convicted baby killer said there were things beyond her control which led to the infants’ deaths, the ABC reports.
Folbigg was questioned over an alleged diary entry written following the birth of baby Laura, in which she allegedly wrote that her fourth child had “saved her life by being different”.
The mother was reportedly asked by Blanch what the entry meant to which she replied: “I had a belief that fate, karma, God, um, a spiritual thing [that] there was another reason as to why all this was happening.
“That there were other things going on beyond my control.”
This prompted Blanch to question Folbigg on whether she believed a supernatural power had played a part in the death of her children Patrick, Sarah and Caleb. Folbigg reportedly claimed that is her belief.
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