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An evil child killer who was jailed for life after drowning his three sons in a dam is about to launch a fresh appeal against his sentence, with a specialist doctor proclaiming his innocence.
Robert Farquharson drove his Commodore into an icy dam with his boys Jai, 10, Tyler, 7, and Bailey, 2, inside and left them to die on Father's Day 2005.
He crashed into a seven metres deep dam, near Winchelsea, 117kilometres south-west of Melbourne and was the only survivor, swimming free from the wreck.
Separate juries Farquharson guilty of murdering his children in both 2007 and a retrial in 2010 after his first conviction was overturned, in what Supreme Court judge Lex Lasry called 'a terrifying death'.
But specialist respiratory doctor Chris Steinfort, who is one of Farquharson's most prominent supporters, said 'I think he's an innocent man'.
Robert Farquharson (pictured) drove a car into a dam with their three boys Jai, 10, Tyler, 7, and Bailey, 2, inside and left them to die on Father's Day 2005
Farquharson's bid for freedom is based on new laws introduced in Victoria in 2019 which allow an appeal if there is fresh and compelling evidence of a substantial miscarriage of justice, the ABC reported.
'It's always somewhat distressing when you believe someone has had a miscarriage of justice, and that I was somehow involved in that process,' Dr Steinfort, who testified at Farquharson's previous trials told 7.30 in a interview to be broadcast on Thursday night.
Dr Steinfort assessed Farquharson before his first trial and is convinced the crash was an accident caused by a cough-induced fainting condition known as cough syncope, though this was rejected by the juries.
'I said to him, "What happened?" And (Farquharson) basically said, "Well, I really don't know what happened",' Dr Steinfort said.
'That made me think there may well be something in this as the cause of the accident, and I wrote all that down in my medical record.'
Farquharson had been sick before the crash, but took his sons for a drive to get KFC for dinner in nearby Geelong.
The crash happened as he was driving them back to Winchelsea where they lived with their mother, Cindy-Gambino-Moules - they had separated the year before.
Ms Gambino-Moules died suddenly and unexpectedly, aged 50, in May 2022.
At first, she believed her former husband was innocent but later changed her mind and thought he deliberately killed their children in an act of family violence.
The prosecution argued Farquharson made up that he had a coughing fit that caused him to faint.
Another medical expert, Dr Thomas Naughton, testified that Farquharson
