An inquiry has heard the state’s top prosecutor accepts there is reasonable doubt about Folbigg’s convictions over the deaths of her children.
Callan said that “in our submission, the weight of the expert evidence in the disciplines of cardiology and genetics is that the ... genetic variant is a reasonably possible cause of the sudden deaths of Sarah Folbigg and Laura Folbigg”.
“These three propositions give rise to a fourth: namely, that this creates doubt as to Ms Folbigg’s guilt in relation to inflicting grievous bodily harm on Patrick, and the deaths of Patrick, Sarah and Laura Folbigg. Callan said that “certain entries are capable of being interpreted as admissions of having killed her four children”.“However, the expert evidence, in the disciplines of psychology and psychiatry ... uniformly indicates that it would be unreliable to interpret the diaries in this way.”
“Overall, this [expert] evidence undermines the probative value of the entries in the diaries and journals, tending to render them neutral, that is, neither inculpatory nor exculpatory.”
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