Mother condemned by own diary

AN Australian mother convicted yesterday of murdering three of her children and the manslaughter of the fourth, was condemned by her own diary.

Kathleen Folbigg, 35, smothered her children over a 10-year period and blamed the deaths on epilepsy, heart disease or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Prosecutors said she killed them because they cramped her social life and made it hard for her to fit in shopping and trips to the gym.