Seven secures sit down interview with Kathleen Folbigg after her release from prison
Seven has negotiated a deal worth more than $400,000 – potentially up to $1 million
After being pardoned for a crime she spent 20 years in prison for, Kathleen Folbigg is set to sit down with Channel Seven to share her story.
The Daily Telegraph is reporting that the Seven Network negotiated a deal worth more than $400,000 – potentially up to $1 million – beating out other offers, including one from Nine.
A source at Seven has reportedly confirmed the interview, and told The Daily Telegraph that it will be airing on 7News Spotlight.
Once called "Australia's worst female serial killer," Kathleen Folbigg left Grafton jail on Monday morning after being pardoned from her minimum 25-year sentence. She was jailed in 2003 for the murder of her three children, Patrick, Sarah, and Laura, and the manslaughter of her son, Caleb.
The four children died between 1989 and 1999, all of them under the age of two. Prosecutors at her trial alleged she had smothered them, however research on gene mutations in the years since has led scientists to believe the children may have died of natural causes.
On Monday, New South Wales Attorney General Michael Daley said that an inquiry into the case has concluded that there was reasonable doubt of Folbigg's guilt.
The confirmation of the interview comes after 7News Spotlight secured and aired an interview with Bruce Lehrmann, the man accused of the sexual assault of Brittany Higgins in Parliament House.
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600,000 metro overnight viewers tuned in to the episode as Lehrmann sat down with Liam Bartlett to tell his side of the story for the first time.
Seven announced the interview on the same day that Lehrmann dropped his legal proceedings against News Corp after reaching an out-of-court settlement. He was taking defamation action against both News Life Media – publisher of news.com.au – and Samantha Maiden, news.com.au’s national political editor.
