Court overturns mother’s convictions for killing her four children

Kathleen Folbigg, right, is embraced by friend Tracy Chapman outside the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal in Sydney (Dan Himbrechts/AAP/AP)

A woman who spent 20 years in prison for killing her four children has had the convictions overturned by an Australian appeal court.

Kathleen Folbigg, 56, was released from prison in June after being pardoned at the New South Wales state government’s direction following new scientific evidence that her four children may have died from natural causes as she had insisted.