Alan Jones backs convicted child killer Kathleen Folbigg, reports say
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Version 0 of 1. The radio presenter Alan Jones has reportedly supported a convicted child killer's claims of innocence. News Corp Australia reports the 2GB presenter has been visiting Kathleen Folbigg in jail and believes the evidence she was convicted on is discredited. In 2003, Folbigg was convicted of killing four of her children, aged between 19 days and 19 months, in the decade from 1989. Jailed for 30 years, Folbigg is Australia's worst female serial killer. The report says Jones has also backed a plan from the University of Newcastle's legal centre to pursue a judicial inquiry into Folbigg's case. Comment has been sought from the university. News Corp reports Jones visited Folbigg after an interview with academic lawyer Emma Cunliffe, who has written a book claiming Folbigg was wrongly convicted. Jones referred to evidence used in the case from Folbigg's diary. "Consensus tells you that when a woman loses her baby she feels a sense of guilt," he told News Corp. "How she translates that in language, her feelings of failure to the child, to be a good mother, is by writing that to herself in these diaries. "They were then used against her." Contacted on Sunday, a spokesman for Jones said it was unlikely he would comment further. Our editors' picks for the day's top news and commentary delivered to your inbox each morning. |