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Kathleen Folbigg

June 2023

Peter Yates.

The Kathleen Folbigg case, the DPP and ‘getting away with blue murder’

Business veteran Peter Yates was never meant to wade into Folbigg’s legal battle. But when he did, he changed the course of her fight.

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  • Kylar Loussikian
Kathleen Folbigg, then age 35, leaves the Supreme Court of NSW on April 3, 2003.

Kathleen Folbigg released: ‘reasonable doubt about murder convictions’

Her release after two decades should lead to “significant compensation,” said Peter Yates, the ex-Macquarie banker who has become an advocate for Ms Folbigg.

  • Kylar Loussikian

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