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Woman accused of murdering 3 people with toxic mushroom-laced meal heads to trial in Australia

Charlotte EvansBy Charlotte EvansApril 29, 2025
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An Australian woman accused or murders three people with a Beef Wellington of toxic fungus meat He faces the trial on Wednesday in a case that has caught global attention.

Erin Patterson, 50, is accused of three murders, including his parents and an attempt to murder.

She has He declared himself innocent to all aspects.

Patterson has a battery to organize a lunch of July 2023 in which the Pastel and Beef Baked Plate served, which the police said it was tied with poisonous fungi.

His parents in the law, Don and Gail Patterson, and the wife of a local shepherd, Heather Wilkinson, died in the days after food.

Wilkinson’s husband, Ian, recovered after almost two months in the hospital. The BBC had reported its hospitalization that was waiting in a liver transplant.

Patterson was arrested in November 2023, the BBC reported.

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A police officer and a dog investigate in Erin Patterson’s property in Leongatha, Australia, Thorsday, on November 2, 2023. Australian police arrested Patterson in an investigation of an incident of suspended fungal poisoning that left three dead people.

Image of James Ross/AAP through AP


Patterson will be tried in the courts of Law Valley of Latrobe in Morwell, south of Melbourne, one hour by car from Leongatha, where he ate supposedly fatal food.

On Tuesday a jury of 15 people was selected and will be reduced to 12 through the vote as the verdict approaches.

Judge Christopher Beale told jurors that prosecutors had abandoned separate charges against Patterson claiming that she had also tried to kill her separate husband.

Judge Beale urged the jury to “disappasitely” weigh the evidence in the case, using their heads and not their hearts, BBC reported.

The trial is expected to be executed for six weeks and will begin with statements to open the Prosecutor’s Office and the defense, each side giving a summary of their case and detailing the witnesses and evidence they plan to trust.

The case reached the headlines worldwide, which caused a series of podcasts and a documentary television series about the Australian transmission service Stan.

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In this sketch of the Court, Erin Patterson appears in the Court of Magistrates of Latrobe Valley, Australia, on November 3, 2023.

Anita Lester /AAP image through AP


The Supreme Court of the State of Victoria has imposed strict guidelines on informing about the case to ensure that Patterson receives a fair trial.

While the court is open to the public, the case will not be televised.

What are the fungi of the death cover?

Police say that the symptoms of the four sick family members were consistent with the poisoning of Amanita Phalloids wild, known as Death cover fungi.

The fungi of the death cover sprout freely through humid and warm parts of Australia and are easily confused with edible varieties.

They informed Leeter that other types of fungi, but have powerful toxins that slowly poison the liver and kidneys.

The death limits are responsible for 90% or lethal poisoning worldwide, the BBC reported. In 2020, a series of poisoning in Victoria killed a person and hospitalized seven others.

The Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported that in Patterson he had written in a statement that he had cooked a dish of res bee.

She wrote that she also ate the food and then suffered stomach and Darhea pain.

His children, who were not present at lunch, ate some of the remaining meat from Wellington the next day, the BBC reported. However, the mushrooms had a scraped leg of the plate since they do not like, he said.

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