Kathleen Folbigg wins battle for payment over wrongful convictions

ABC NEWS (Australia)

A friend of Kathleen Folbigg is calling for an inquiry into how the new South Wales government came to the ex-gratia figure awarded following her wrongful imprisonment. Ms Folbigg spent two decades in jail, falsely accused of killing her four young children between 1989 and 1999. Her friend Tracey Chapman says the $2 million payout isn't enough.

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00:00yesterday when i spoke to cath she just said i have no words i have no words i mean it was

00:08actually gobsmacking i've i we were both sort of mulling this over i'm talking about the

00:14inhumanity of it the lack of ethics you know and it's against what i believe is the labor

00:19party's core values you know i went back and ironically read over them and i was just

00:23you know it cemented my view so yeah we're both not happy i think it's an a question of

00:29fairness this is grossly unfair it does not reflect the 20 years of wrongful conviction of

00:35being imprisoned in a maximum security prison in new south wales it doesn't we we're still even

00:41waiting for an apology she's never got an apology even when she was exonerated so it's all very

00:46shocking disappointing and as i always say inhumane the letter actually is really brief i i saw the

00:53letter and i was really shocked i it said they did extensive research and backgrounding and yet

01:00there's no discussion on that as evidence um yeah nothing and then it said it was actually

01:06gobsmacking that they then said this is not a negotiation this is final

01:10gobsmacking that they're not a negotiation this is final

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