{"id":560814,"date":"2026-03-24T09:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/560814\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:29:10","slug":"convicted-baby-killer-keli-lane-granted-supervised-day-release-to-support-boyfriends-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/560814\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted baby killer Keli Lane granted supervised day release to support boyfriend&#8217;s lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C\ufeffonvicted baby killer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/exclusive-baby-killer-keli-lane-seen-working-at-milk-processing-plant-in-sydney-west\/ca90e064-1a66-4233-8265-262b04598ca7\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Keli Lane\">Keli Lane<\/a> has been granted day release from prison to support her long-term partner, who has launched an unfair dismissal claim against his former employer.<\/p>\n<p>Lane, 51, has been seen\ufeff on special supervised day release from maximum security Silverwater jail with her boyfriend Patrick Cogan.<\/p>\n<p>Cogan taught at St Pius X College at Chatswood on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/sydney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Sydney&#039;s\">Sydney&#8217;s<\/a> Lower North Shore for decades before being fired in 2025 after allegedly using his work email to engage with the media about Lane&#8217;s case.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/48a199c9-b6bc-4e37-b0af-8a419a18b82f.jpeg\"   alt=\"Keli Lane, 51, has been seen&#xFEFF; on special supervised day release from maximum security Silverwater jail with her boyfriend Patrick Cogan.\"\/>C\ufeffonvicted baby killer Keli Lane seen on supervised day release from Silverwater jail. (9News)<\/p>\n<p>He lodged a dispute with the Fair Work Commission over his termination.<\/p>\n<p>Lane was found guilty in 2010 of murdering her newborn daughter Tegan in 1996 and was sentenced to a non-parole period of 13 years and five months.<\/p>\n<p>The former champion water polo player has always maintained her innocence while being transferred between some of the toughest jails across NSW.<\/p>\n<p>She was denied parole in 2024 over the state&#8217;s no body, no parole law.<\/p>\n<p>Tegan&#8217;s remains have never been found.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/adbb5732-2b73-46b4-9259-8be57805ca60.jpeg\"   alt=\"Keli Lane, 51, has been seen&#xFEFF; on special supervised day release from maximum security Silverwater jail with her boyfriend Patrick Cogan.\"\/>The former champion water polo player was denied parole in 2024. (9News)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7b69f99e-93f9-4da9-a180-2257a0e2210f.jpeg\"   alt=\"Keli Lane. (AAP)\"\/>Lane seen during her criminal trial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\ufeffIn circumstances where Tegan&#8217;s body has never been found, the offender&#8217;s case in respect of release to parole, has been determined solely by reference to s 135A of the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999, which incorporates the &#8216;no body, no parole&#8217; laws,&#8221; the NSW State Parole Authority said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Authority is not satisfied that the offender has co-operated satisfactorily in police investigations, or other actions, to identify the location of Tegan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffHer prison term is due to finish in December 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Lane tried to appeal her conviction after being found guilty in 2010, however that appeal was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"C\ufeffonvicted baby killer Keli Lane has been granted day release from prison to support her long-term partner, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-560814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}