Schwartz: Accusation of infanticide might have been premature and not correct. VINU-S assent Schwartz's letter and the new paper to Blanche, and lawyers sent it on to Sydney team. The medical literature is littered with papers that claim to have identified dangerous gene variants which later turned out to be harmless.
Kathleen Folbigg has spent nearly 20 years in prison after being convicted of killing her four children. But in 2018, a group of scientists began gathering evidence that suggested another possibility for the deaths — that at least two of them were attributable to a genetic mutation that can affect heart function. A judicial inquiry in 2019 failed to reverse Folbigg’s conviction, but this month, the researchers will present new evidence at a second inquiry, which could ultimately spell freedom for Folbigg.
This is an audio version of our Feature: She was convicted of killing her four children. Could a gene mutation set her free?
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