Waving her hands around in the dock and repeatedly mouthing the word “yay”, Gold Coast mother Maree Crabtree couldn’t hide her glee as the judge ordered her release from jail.
It had been six years since the 57-year-old tasted freedom after she was charged in 2018 with the murders of two of her adult children – Erin, aged 18, in 2012 and Jonathan, aged 26, in 2017.
In late February, Justice Peter Davis declared a mistrial after new evidence brought the testimony of the prosecution’s key