Mushroom killer to be jailed for life after appeals court finds sentence too light
The court also overturned her 33-year non-parole period, saying the original sentence did not reflect the seriousness of the murders.
- On Friday, The Court dismissed Erin Patterson's appeal against her murder convictions, upholding a prosecution challenge that found her original sentence too light.
- Patterson, 52, was found guilty of killing three relatives using toxic mushrooms hidden in Wellingtons during a July 2023 lunch and received 25 years for attempted murder of a fourth guest.
- Justice Stephen McLeish stated the crimes were "extraordinarily cold and calculated" and involved "shocking criminality" deserving to be "denounced in the strongest terms."
- Prosecutors successfully appealed the original 33 years non-parole period, ensuring Patterson remains in prison for life without possibility of release.
- Seven grounds of appeal were presented in August, but The Court dismissed them all, confirming the guilty verdict for the three deaths.
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PressNewsAgencyAustralian mushroom killer likely to die in jail after failed appeal
Australian mushroom murderer Erin Patterson lost a bid to overturn her convictions and had a harsher sentence imposed on Friday, failing to prove she was wrongfully jailed for killing three people with a poisoned lunch. Patterson was found guilty last year of murdering her husband’s parents and elderly aunt, deliberately lacing their beef Wellington meal with highly toxic death cap mushrooms. The 52-year-old maintained her triple murder convicti…
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