'It's not enough': anger at payout to mother wrongfully jailed for her children's deaths

Award amounts to less than £1m after DNA breakthrough ends 20 years in prison

- Rachel Sylvester

Kathleen Folbigg, the Australian mother falsely accused of killing her four children, has been granted a A$2m (£970,000) compensation payout after spending 20 years in jail.

The payment was approved by the New South Wales attorney-general after Folbigg was exonerated on the basis of groundbreaking science. Innovative DNA sequencing revealed that she was carrying a previously undiscovered genetic mutation that could cause heart problems. She had passed it to two of her children, which meant it was likely that they had died from natural causes.

The case featured in The Observer's podcast The Lab Detective, which follows the work of Carola Vinuesa, the scientist at the Francis Crick Institute in London who helped to clear Folbigg's name.