US EditionProsecutor Calls for Erin Patterson to Be Jailed for Life with No Parole for Mushroom Murders
Erin Patterson was convicted in July 2023 for poisoning three relatives with death cap mushrooms in a beef Wellington, facing potential life sentences and 25 years for attempted murder.
- Erin Patterson has arrived in Melbourne for a leniency plea after a triple-murder conviction last month for poisoning Don Patterson, Gail Patterson, and Heather Wilkinson with toxic mushrooms.
- On July 29, 2023, a beef Wellington lunch at Patterson's Leongatha home contained toxic death cap mushrooms, killing Don Patterson, Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson.
- Ian Wilkinson, sole surviving lunch guest and victim witness, endured months in hospital and a liver transplant before telling the court, `My life is greatly impoverished without them`.
- Patterson faces potential life sentences for each murder and up to 25 years for attempted murder; she has 28 days from sentencing at the Latrobe Valley law courts to appeal and maintains the poisonings were accidental.
- Relatives and community figures described widespread ripple effects, with Simon Patterson noting relentless media scrutiny and family members reporting an irreparably broken home affecting local community and mushroom growing industry.
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Mushroom murderer Erin Patterson left me 'half alive', sole survivor says
Ian Wilkinson was speaking at the pre-sentencing hearing for Erin Patterson, who was convicted of murdering Mr Wilkinson's wife, Heather, her sister Gail Patterson, and Gail's husband Don with a toxic lunch in July 2023.
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C 38%
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