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William Tyrrell's foster mum told a friend that if she had disposed of the three-year-old's body, she would have come forward and taken responsibility.

William Tyrrell's foster mum told a friend that if she disposed of the three-year-old's body, she would have come forward and taken responsibility.

A special inquiry hears diary entries made by convicted killer about struggling with motherhood were characterised as "admissions of guilt", but a range of experts who have since analysed them have a very different view.

The rare genetic variant affecting an essential building block of life was discovered nine years after Kathleen Folbigg was convicted of killing her children.

Lawyers for convicted mother said if the variant was a factor in the death of her daughters it would create reasonable doubt

Her lawyers have submitted the evidence indicates a genetic mutation could be responsible for the deaths of two of the children.

Folbigg's lawyers have submitted the evidence indicates a genetic mutation could be responsible for the deaths of two of the children.

A rare genetic variant affecting the heart is the focus of a second inquiry into the conviction of Kathleen Folbigg, three years on from the first inquiry.

A retired judge is due to begin hearing evidence in November at the second inquiry into Kathleen Folbigg's convictions for killing four of her children.