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BEST FRIEND SPEAKS OUT ‘Kathleen Folbigg is innocent’

Shifting on an uncomfortable plastic chair, Tracy Chapman scanned around the room. She had never felt more intimidated in her life. The scene she found herself in, full of hard-faced prisoners sitting opposite their loved ones, was like something from a tense movie.

It was 2004. The previous year Tracy’s childhood best friend, Kathleen Folbigg, had started a 40-year jail sentence

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