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In pictures: The evidence in Erin Patterson's mushroom murder trial
Australian woman Erin Patterson has been found guilty by a jury of murdering three relatives with a beef Wellington meal that had toxic mushrooms in it. The 50-year-old from the small Victorian town of Morwell has also been found guilty of the attempted murder of a fourth person - the sole survivor of that fatal meal on 29 July 2023.
Erin Patterson convicted for murder of husband’s family with deadly mushrooms
Australian woman Erin Patterson was convicted Monday of murdering her estranged husband’s family by poisoning them with death cap mushrooms. Patterson, 50, faces up to life in prison for the deaths of Don and Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson following a meal at her home in Leongatha in July 2023.
The survivor of a poisoned beef wellington meal hosted by killer cook Erin Patterson has shared a message as his family ...
Erin Patterson murdered three of her ex-husband's relatives by serving them toxic death cap mushrooms ...
The church invite for a seemingly ordinary lunch invitation turned into a chilling tale of murder from which only one guest ...
Ian and Heather Wilkinson were then transferred for acute care at another hospital. Within days, three of the four lunch guests were dead. Ian Wilkinson, the pastor, lived after weeks of hospital ...
Heather Wilkinson (left) and Don and Gail Patterson (right) died in hospital after eating a meal suspected to have contained poisoned mushroom. Source: AAP / Supplied The sole survivor of a deadly ...
Jurors in the murder trial of mushroom cook Erin Patterson have been taken to 15 alleged acts of incriminating conduct the ...
The mother of two was accused of Heather Wilkinson, Gail and Don Patterson, the 70-year-old parents of her ex-husband, and Wilkinson's nephew Simon Patterson.
The mother of two also denies attempting to murder Heather’s husband Ian Wilkinson, who survived the meal. In a rare step for a defendant charged with murder, Patterson chose to speak in her own ...
Ian Wilkinson told the courtroom on Tuesday that he and his wife Heather had been "very happy to be invited" to the lunch hosted by Erin Patterson. But the meal left Heather and two other ...
Ian Wilkinson says Gail and Heather offered to help Erin Patterson serve the food, but ‘the offer was rejected’ Ian Wilkinson, the only guest who survived the lunch, has for the first time ...
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