The ex-husband of Kathleen Folbigg, the woman who was wrongly jailed for killing the couple’s four children, has died of a heart attack.
Craig Folbigg, who was also suffering from cancer, is understood to have been taken to Maitland Hospital in the NSW Hunter Valley on Saturday and died on Monday.
Ms Folbigg was convicted of three counts of murder and one of manslaughter in 2003 after her babies Patrick, Sarah, Laura and Caleb died between 1989 and 1999.
She was released from jail and pardoned in June last year due to ‘reasonable doubt’ over the cause of the children’s deaths.
The ex-husband of Kathleen Folbigg, the woman who was wrongly jailed for killing the couple’s four children, has died of a heart attack. Craig and Kathleen Folbigg are pictured
Mr Folbigg had been ‘frustrated and disappointed’ by the decision to pardon the formerly accused child killer after she spent 20 years in prison.
He had ‘not changed his view’ on the babies’ causes of death despite a fresh inquiry finding there was reasonable doubt over his ex-wife’s convictions.
In December, the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal quashed Ms Folbigg’s convictions.
Mr Folbigg gave evidence against his ex-wife at her trial and handed over several of her diaries to police, saying it was those documents that made him suspect her.
He refused to provide a DNA sample to scientists examining genetic sequencing, and did not attend any further hearings or take part in the final inquiry.
Mr Folbigg had been ‘frustrated and disappointed’ by the decision to pardon the formerly accused child killer after she spent 20 years in prison. The former couple is pictured
Mr Folbigg’s solicitor Danny Eid said in June last year: ‘He is the victim of this case’.
‘He is frustrated and disappointed he has to endure yet another chapter,’ Mr Eid said.
‘This is a man people say will heal over time. But with all this time the wounds continue to bleed for him.’
Mr Eid said after losing four children in such tragic circumstances, closure was important for Mr Folbigg and his family.
However, he said that after 20 years of enduring multiple attempts to overturn Ms Folbigg’s conviction and several painful inquiries ‘the wound can never heal’.
***
Read more at DailyMail.co.uk