Canada to deport Aust killer mum: report

Allyson McConnell is being deported to Australia after serving 10 months for drowning her sons. Source: AAP

ALLYSON McConnell, the Australian mother convicted of drowning her two young sons in Canada, will be deported to her homeland next week, a report says.

McConnell's jail term ended on Thursday (Friday AEDT) after she served 10 months of her 15-month sentence in an Alberta hospital.

Albertan authorities had been expected to ask the Canadian government to stop the deportation so that appeals could be heard.

But Canada's federal Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews said Alberta's justice minister was too late in asking for the stay of deportation when McConnell's case was reviewed by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada on Friday (Saturday AEDT), local CBC news reported.

The review follows protests by McConnell's former husband, Curtis McConnell, and Alberta authorities who lodged appeals against what they deemed was the Australian's lenient sentence and conviction for manslaughter, rather than murder.

They wanted the appeals to be heard before she leaves Canada.

On Friday, the deportation review scheduled McConnell to leave on Monday (local time) for Australia, CBC reported.

Until then, 34-year-old McConnell would remain in the Edmonton psychiatric hospital.

Meanwhile, Alberta Justice Minister Jonathan Denis said the prosecution service would press ahead with its appeals, CBC reported.

"Whether or not Ms McConnell remains in Canada, Albertans can be assured that the prosecution service is pressing ahead with these appeals and will continue to seek justice in this case," Denis said in a statement.

McConnell, who suffered depression, drowned 10-month-old Jayden and two-and-a-half-year-old Connor in the bathtub of their family home in Millet, Alberta, in 2010.

The judge who convicted McConnell of the lesser charge of manslaughter found she did not have the requisite intent for murder.

McConnell moved to Canada in 2005 from her home on the NSW Central Coast, met Curtis McConnell and they married.

However, the marriage soured and the McConnells were engaged in a bitter divorce before the deaths, with McConnell desperate to take her boys back to her home town of Gosford.

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