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The New South Wales Supreme Court has more than doubled a pay out to a Taree woman, who was cleared of killing her husband, after serving 10 years in gaol.
Roseanne Beckett, formerly known as Roseanne Catt, has today been awarded $4,091,717, after the court ordered the state to pay her costs with interest.
Ms Beckett was released from gaol in 2001 after a conviction for soliciting the murder of her ex-husband, Barry Catt was quashed.
She has spent more than a decade trying to clear her name.
Outside of court she said “I don’t think too many people could go through what I have gone through”.
In handing down his judgment, Justice Ian Harrison said, “I consider that her success in the proceedings is the relevant event for costs purposes and that the state should pay them.”
