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Life sentence for woman who killed in-laws with mushrooms
The Guardian
|September 09, 2025
Erin Patterson has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 33 years after murdering three people and attempting to murder a fourth with a lunch laced with death cap mushrooms at her home in Victoria, Australia.
Justice Christopher Beale delivered the sentence during a live broadcast in the Victorian supreme court yesterday.
In July, after an 11-week trial, a jury found Patterson, 50, guilty of murdering Don and Gail Patterson - the parents of her estranged husband, Simon Patterson - and Simon's aunt, Heather Wilkinson. The jury also convicted Patterson of attempting to murder Heather's husband, Ian Wilkinson. Patterson hosted the guests at a lunch in July 2023, deliberately feeding them beef wellingtons laced with death cap mushrooms.
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