AN Australian woman who drowned her two young sons in a bathtub in Canada has arrived back in Australia, refusing to comment to reporters at the airport.
AN Australian woman who drowned her two young sons in a bathtub in Canada has arrived back in Australia.
Allyson McConnell, 34, flew into Sydney Airport this morning on an Air Canada flight out of Vancouver with her mother Helen Meager.
She refused to answer reporters' questions as she and a female companion pushed a luggage trolley to the airport car park, with blank stares and "no comment" the only response.
McConnell is expected to travel to Gosford on the NSW Central Coast where Mrs Meager lives.
McConnell's former husband, Curtis McConnell, along with prosecutors and the Alberta justice minister, fought to keep McConnell in Canada until the appeals for her six-year sentence and acquittal on second-degree murder charges were heard.
Convicted killer Allyson McConnell, arrives back in Sydney after being deported from Canada. Picture: Ross Schultz.
At the non-jury trial last year, the judge found McConnell not guilty of the second-degree murder of the boys, but guilty of their manslaughter, and sentenced her to six years' jail.
With time served and credits, McConnell spent 10 months in the Alberta hospital psychiatric ward.
Appeals against the not guilty murder verdict and sentence were lodged and Mr McConnell and prosecutors had hoped McConnell would be forced to stay in Canada until they were heard, but Canadian authorities ordered McConnell to be deported.
Allyson McConnell pictured with one of her sons. Source: Facebook
Convicted killer Allyson McConnell arrives back in Sydney after being deported from Canada. Picture: Ross Schultz. Source: The Daily Telegraph
Mr McConnell fears his ex-wife could kill again in Australia.
"Will anyone there know about the murders she committed here?'' he asked.
"Being only 34 years old, will she start a new family and have another child in her care?''
Curtis McConnell and his wife Allyson Meagher on their wedding day in undated photo on his Facebook site.
Alberta Justice Minister Jonathan Denis said on Monday he wanted McConnell returned to Canada if the appeals were successful.
Curtis McConnell with his two boys. Picture: Facebook Source: Supplied
"We will be in contact immediately with Australian officials and have her brought back to Canada so she can serve the rest of her time here," Mr Denis told the Canadian Broadcast Corporation.
"Under the treaties that we have, my understanding is that if the sentence was overturned in favour of some larger sentence, Australia would be required under these conventions to bring her back to Canada to pay her debt to the province."
McConnell, 34, met her Canadian husband in 2006 when they were working at a ski resort in British Columbia.
They married, but after the birth of Jayden the marriage broke down. Mr McConnell filed for divorce and successfully blocked McConnell from taking their sons to Australia.
McConnell has battled depression and admitted she drowned the boys.
However, the judge who heard the murder trial found there was reasonable doubt McConnell "had the specific intent to kill her children".
On the day of the children's death Mr McConnell received a phone call from Edmonton police informing him his wife had fallen off a bridge and onto a roadway.
She survived, but was in hospital.
"Where are the kids?'' Mr McConnell asked the officer on the end of the phone.
The officer didn't know.
Mr McConnell jumped in his car and drove to the family home, where the doors were locked, the volume on the TV was turned up and the power was out in certain rooms.
There was no sign of two-year-old Connor and 10-month-old Jayden.
He frantically searched the house and came to a bathroom, but the door was locked.
Desperate, he used a butter knife to open it.
"I could smell their dead bodies,'' Curtis McConnell, speaking through tears, testified at his wife's murder trial in a Wetaskiwin court last year.
Connor and Jayden were floating in the bathtub.
"I just dropped to my knees and I reached into the water, and the water was so cold.
"They were so cold and stiff. I had to pull them out.
"She just left them there to rot.''
On the toilet seat next to the bathtub was his wife's wedding ring.
Allyson McConnell had lunch at a hotel before jumping off the bridge.
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