ERIN PATTERSON MURDER BY MUSHROOM

ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S MOST FASCINATING CASES REACHES A CHILLING CONCLUSION

- Kylie Walters

The scene that played out in Erin Patterson's home is one that happens in households across Australia every weekend. Except when the mother-of-two invited some relatives around for a Sunday roast lunch in July 2023, three people wound up dead while another spent weeks in hospital fighting for his life.

Following a nine-week trial and seven days of deliberations, the small courthouse in Latrobe Valley's Morwell was packed to the brim on July 7 when the jury filed in to finally deliver their verdict after Patterson, 50, was accused of poisoning her in-laws with beef Wellingtons that were laced with deadly death cap mushrooms.