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Australian mom who drowned boys in Alberta to have immigration detention review
EDMONTON – An Australian woman who has finished her jail term in Alberta for drowning her two children is to have an immigration detention review on Friday.
The review for Allyson McConnell is a routine step where the Immigration and Refugee Board will decide whether she should be further detained in Edmonton or released from custody and removed from the country.
If the board decides to detain her, she will have another hearing in seven days.
McConnell earned early release Thursday after serving two-thirds of a 15-month sentence at a psychiatric hospital for manslaughter
Court heard she was depressed and suicidal when she drowned her two young boys in the bathtub of her home in Millet, a small town south of Edmonton, in 2010.
Alberta Justice Minister Jonathan Denis has asked the federal immigration minister to intervene and keep the woman here pending the outcome of an appeal of her conviction and sentence.
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