Prosecutors appeal mum's murder conviction

Canadian prosecutors are appealing against the murder conviction of an Australian-born woman who was found guilty of drowning her two infant sons in the bath.

Allyson McConnell was scheduled to be sentenced on the murder conviction in two weeks' time.

But now the Alberta justice department has launched an appeal, saying it wants the conviction upgraded to second degree murder.

Failing that, it wants a new trial.

McConnell was originally charged with second degree murder but was convicted of the lesser charge.

The judge based that ruling on a lack of evidence about McConnell's mental state and intent when she drowned her sons - two-year-old Connor and 10-month-old Jayden - in February 2010.

A spokesman for Alberta's solicitor-general said the appeal was launched on the grounds that legal errors were made in the analysis of the evidence, in the consideration of intent and the application of reasonable doubt.
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