Body found believed to be child killer Allyson McConnell

A body found under a bridge on the New South Wales Central Coast is believed to be that of convicted child killer Allyson McConnell.

Police say a member of the public made the grim discover at West Gosford, just after 11 o'clock this morning.

The body believed to be a 34-year-old from Gosford will be formally identified later this week.

McConnell, who drowned her two young sons in a bathtub in Canada, arrived back in Australia in April

Despite being sentenced to six years, she was deported from Canada after serving 10 months in a psychiatric hospital.

Her former husband, Canadian Curtis McConnell, prosecutors and the Alberta justice minister all fought to keep McConnell in Canada until the appeals against her sentence and acquittal on second-degree murder charges were heard.

Alberta politicians and their federal counterparts blamed each other for her release and exit to Australia before the appeals process had concluded.

McConnell admitted drowning her sons, two-year-old Connor and 10-month-old Jayden, in a bathtub in her adopted home town of Millet, Alberta, in February 2010.

At her trial last year, she was found guilty of two counts of manslaughter, after being charged with second degree murder.

Mr McConnell's family said in a statement released in April: "We fear that if Allyson Meager McConnell is deported to Australia, we will never see her face justice for the horror and terror she inflicted on two innocent babies before killing them."

In sentencing McConnell, the judge found she was suffering psychological issues and there was reasonable doubt she had the specific intent to kill Connor and Jayden.

Her trial heard the McConnells' marriage had broken down in 2009, Mr McConnell moved out of the family home and filed for divorce and a judge ordered McConnell could not take her sons back to Australia.

Mr McConnell found his two sons floating in the bathtub, with his former wife's wedding ring sitting on the toilet seat next to the bath.

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