Court considers overturning mother’s convictions for killing four children

Kathleen Folbigg was freed from prison in June (Pool via AP)

An Australian court will consider overturning a woman’s convictions for killing her four children, months after she was pardoned for the crimes due to new evidence that the siblings had died of natural causes, a government inquiry has reported.

Overturning Kathleen Folbigg’s convictions would end a legal battle that has reached the highest level of Australia’s court system to clear her of responsibility for her children’s deaths, which happened over a decade between 1989 and 1999.