Heidi Strbak granted special leave to appeal Tyrell Cobb manslaughter conviction

The High Court has granted a Gold Coast mother special leave to appeal her nine-year manslaughter sentence for the death of her four-year-old son Tyrell Cobb after she did not seek medical assistance for him as he lay dying from blunt force trauma.

KILLER mum Heidi Strbak will has been granted special leave by the High Court to appeal her sentence for the death of her four-year-old son Tyrell Cobb.

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The Queensland mum was jailed for nine years’ in 2017 after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of her little boy on the Gold Coast in 2009.

Heidi Strbak outside the Supreme Court in Brisbane. Picture: AAP/Claudia Baxter

She admitted she had not sought medical attention for her son who was dying of abdominal injuries caused by blunt force trauma, but claimed she had not injured him.

Strbak’s ex-partner Matthew Scown pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the same basis and was sentenced before the mother to four years’ jail but was released immediately after serving almost three years on remand.

Tyrell Cobb. Picture: Channel 7

In her sentencing hearing, Strbak contested the allegation she beat Tyrell.

The Queensland Supreme Court held Strbak responsible for the child’s killing after finding there was no compelling evidence Scown had inflicted the fatal injuries.

Strbak, who will be eligible for parole in 2021, last year unsuccessfully appealed her sentence to the Queensland Court of Appeal on the basis the sentencing judge should not have concluded she inflicted the fatal blows to the child, which caused his death.

She then took her case to the High Court of Australia which today granted her special leave to appeal.

The matter is yet to be scheduled for an appeal hearing.