By Adam Mccleery For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 03:46 BST, 8 May 2019 | Updated: 05:40 BST, 8 May 2019
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The best friend of Australia's worst female serial killer has dismissed diary evidence used to convict her friend saying it was simply an exercise in grief gone wrong.
Tracy Chapman has been friends with convicted child killer Kathleen Folbigg since the pair were six years old and she has maintained her best friend's innocence since she was sent to jail in 2003.
She was convicted of the murders of her children Sarah, Patrick and Laura and was convicted of the manslaughter of her firstborn, Caleb.
Tracy Chapman (pictured) has been friends with convicted child killer Kathleen Folbigg since the pair were six and she has maintained her best friend's innocence since she was sent to jail after her 2003 Sydney trial
Tracy Chapman dismissed diary evidence (pictured) used to convict her friend, saying entries in the journal were simply an exercise in grief gone wrong
'They are trying to paint her as someone loopy and it's not about that, it's just a grieving mother,' Mrs Chapman said of the damning diary entries which helped convict Folbigg.
The diary entries tendered in Folbigg's