Overview
- Western Australia’s Court of Appeal set aside the couple’s 2024 jury convictions and released them on bail with $50,000 undertakings and $50,000 sureties each.
- The District Court will consider a retrial at a hearing scheduled for April 24.
- The court has not yet published its full reasons for quashing the verdicts.
- The daughter was admitted to Perth Children’s Hospital in 2021 near age 17 weighing about 27–28 kilograms, and doctors said she would likely have died without urgent care.
- The father earlier admitted forging his daughter’s birth certificate, and in January 2025 the parents received prison terms of more than six years and five years as the judge called their conduct grossly negligent.