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Mushroom killer to be jailed for life after appeals court finds sentence too light
Judges upheld her murder convictions and agreed prosecutors that her 33-year non-parole period was too lenient, sending the case back for resentencing.
- 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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A case like a thriller by Agatha Christie: An Australian kills three people with poison mushrooms - and continues to assert her innocence to this day. Now the condemned have failed with their vocation.
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Erin Patterson killed three family members with poisonous fly agarics and was sentenced to life in prison. Her appeal has been dismissed.
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Erin Patterson, 52, was sentenced to life in jail last year for poisoning oven of her relative with death cap mushrooms at a lunch in 2023, but has lost an
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