Baby killer Keli Lane's appeal begins Keli Lane is set to appeal her conviction more than two years after she was jailed for murder. KELI Lane's appeal has started in Sydney, more than two years after she was jailed for murdering her newborn baby Tegan. Lane, whose once bleached-blonde hair is now brown, appeared at the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal on Tuesday dressed in a pink and black blouse. The former elite water polo player was jailed in 2011 for at least 13 years and five months for the murder of two-day-old Tegan, whose body has never been found. The crown said Lane killed her daughter after leaving Auburn Hospital in September 1996. Lane has always maintained she gave Tegan to the infant's biological father, a man named Andrew Norris or Morris. Lane's legal team, led by barrister Winston Terracini SC, is appealing her conviction on a number of grounds, including that an alternative count of manslaughter should have been open to the jury as there was no evidence "of infliction of any harm with any intent." Speaking on Tuesday, Mr Terracini said there was a "scarcity of material indicating what the appellant's intentions were when she allegedly committed the offence." They (the crown) say there has to be a murder. During her trial, the crown contended Lane, 38, murdered Tegan because a child would have interfered with her sporting, sex and social life. Her trial heard how she had two terminations as a teenager and kept three pregnancies and births secret from family and friends. Tegan was the middle child of the three secret babies, with the other two infants adopted out. In sentencing her in 2011 to a maximum of 18 years, Justice Anthony Whealy said: "A puzzling aspect of the Crown case at trial was that the offender was said to have been so distressed by the difficulties involved in the first birth that she murdered her second child, rather than face again the prospect of a long adoption process. Yet upon the birth of her third child, that was the very process on which she immediately embarked. The appeal before Chief Justice Tim Bathurst, Justice Carolyn Simpson and Justice Christine Adamson continues.