Keli Lane in this file picture from 2006. Photo / AAP
Keli Lane in this file picture from 2006. Photo / AAP
Sydney child murderer Keli Lane has rejected claims by a cab driver that she dumped two-day old baby Tegan alive at a secluded location on the way home from hospital.
As Lane's legal team lodged her appeal notice yesterday, police were speaking with the taxi driver who made the stunningrevelation that Lane and her baby had been in his vehicle on that fateful night in September 1996.
A story in Sydney's Daily Telegraph this morning throws serious doubt on the cab driver's credibility.
The paper says it has emerged that cabbie Maurice Schokman was banned from driving in September, 1996, and there was no evidence he was driving a taxi that day.
Sources also told the Telegraph Mr Schokman admits suffering from a mental condition.
Meanwhile, Lane's solicitor Ben Archbold said his client, who was sentenced to a maximum 18 years jail for murdering baby Tegan, was "resilient" and focused on her appeal.
"We are aware of the taxi driver's claims but have no interest in pursuing that line of an inquiry," Lane's solicitor Ben Archbold said.
"His and any future claims are a matter for investigators to assess."
Lane has always maintained to prosecutors that she left the baby in the care of a "boyfriend" - a mystery man whom police have never been able to track down.
Prosecutors painted a picture of her as a socialite who wanted to live the high life, and who thought the baby would be too much of a hindrance.
