Australian woman convicted in poison mushroom triple murder case

Melbourne, Australia – Australian Erin Patterson was found guilty of killing her three husband’s relatives on Monday, who was deliberately serving them to poisonous mushrooms for lunch.

In the Supreme Court trial in the state of Victoria, the jury returned a decision after six days of deliberations, after nine weeks of testing catching Australia. Patterson has to face life in jail and will be sentenced later, but a date for hearing has not been set.

Patterson, who was sitting in the dock between two prison officials, showed no feeling, but was taken fast as a decision.

Three of Patterson’s four lunch guests – his father -in -law Don and Gayle Patterson, and Gayle’s sister Heather Wilkinson – died at the hospital in the hospital after 2023 meals at their home in the hospital, on which he served the Death Cap mushroom individual beef wellington pastry.

He was also found guilty for an attempt to kill Ian Wilkinson, Heather’s husband, who survived food.

It was not disputed whether Patterson served mushrooms or pastry killed his guests. The jury needed to decide whether she knows that there is a cap of death in lunch, and if she intends to die.

The convicted decisions, which were needed to be unanimous, indicated that the gamblers rejected Patterson’s rescue that the presence of poisonous fungi in the food was a terrible accident, which was due to the wrongly involved of forged mushrooms that she did not know that she was a death cap. The prosecutors did not offer a motive for the murders, but highlighted the stressful relationship between Patterson and her husband during the trial, and the disappointment she felt about her parents in the past.

The victims’ relatives said for secrecy in view of the jury’s decision, the police said, “According to the French news agency AFP, the police said.

Victoria Police said in a statement, “Families have asked for confidentiality at this time.” “We will continue to support them in every way after this decision.”

The facts of the case were not disputed so Patterson’s intentions were important

The case noted the question whether Patterson carefully planned a triple murder or accidentally killed three people, including their children’s only living grandparents. Her lawyers said she had no reason – she had recently moved into a beautiful new house, was financially comfortable, her children had the only detention and started studying for a degree in nursing and midwife.

But the prosecutors suggested that Patterson had two faces-the woman who publicly appeared as a good relationship with her parents, while her personal feelings were hidden about them. Her relationship with her husbandThe prosecution said, Simon Patterson, who was invited for deadly lunch, but deteriorated in a year before death.

The simplest facts of what happened that day and immediately there was hardly disputed. But the inspirations of Patterson he had and why was explained in detail during a long testing, which more than 50 witnesses were called.

Personal beef Wellington Pastrys Patteris served his guests, it was a point of friction, as the recipe he used included instructions for a single, family -shaped part. The prosecutors said that she returned to individual servings so that she could lace the other dinner, but with a deadly fungus, Patterson said she was unable to find the right material to make a recipe.

Almost every other detail of the day of luck was investigated in the length, in which Patterson sent his children out for a film before the arrival of his guests, Why did he add extra dried mushrooms to the recipe Why did she not get sick from her pantry When another dinner didAnd why did he settle a food dehydration after deaths and asked investigators that he was not his own.

Patterson admitted some lies during her evidence – it also includes that she never made mushrooms or was owned by a dehydration. But he said that those claims were made in panic because he realized that his food killed people.

She said that she has not been ill like other dinner since vomiting after meals due to food disorder. She denied that she told her guests as to why she invites her to her home that day as cancer.

Case caught Australia

The bizarre and tragic case has come to the mind of the Australians and instigated the enthusiasm between the public and the media.

During the test, five different podcasts analyzed each day of proceedings and several news outlets ran the live blogs on the live blogs that gave the live blogs every moment of evidence of more than two months.

At least one television drama and a documentary about the case are slaughtered for production. Prominent Australian crime writers were seen in the court throughout the trial.

Since it was clear before half an hour before the verdict was recited, about 40 members of the public were queuing up in a queue outside the courthouse in the rural city of Morwell in the hope of seeing the results in the individual. News outlets reported that there was no family member of the victims.

Prior to the verdict, newspapers published photos of the black secrecy screen at the entrance of Erin Patterson’s house. Dozens of journalists from all over Australia and news outlets abroad crowded Patterson’s friends, as they left the courtyard on Monday.

“I am sad, but this is what it is,” a friend, Ali Rose said, who wore sunglasses and fought his tears back. Asked what Patterson felt that the verdict had been read, Rose said, “I don’t know.”

Details on poisonous mushrooms served

According to the French news agency AFP, “Death Caps” – or Amanita Phalids – are the deadliest mushrooms in the world, causing some 90 percent of fungi -related fatal fatal.

It is easy for others to make the mistake of brown and white mushrooms, and it is said that they get a pleasant taste when cooking.

But toxicologist Dimitri Gerostamolos testified that they are saturated with malignant chemicals known as amatoxin.

“They may experience the symptoms of diarrhea, vomiting, feel really unwell and they are progressively deteriorated if the toxins are not removed,” said gerostamolos.