Overview
- Keli Lane has been approved for supervised day release from prison to support her partner’s unfair dismissal case.
- Corrections permitted limited daytime attendance under escort for the external legal proceeding.
- Her partner, long-time teacher Patrick Cogan, is challenging his 2025 firing after he allegedly used his school email to speak to media about Lane’s case.
- Lane is serving time for the 1996 murder of her newborn, with parole refused under NSW’s “no body, no parole” law that requires cooperation to locate remains.
- 9News, The Sydney Morning Herald and Brisbane Times reported the decision on March 24, 2026.