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Crime & Law
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An Australian court has dismissed an appeal by “mushroom murderer” Erin Patterson against her conviction and ruled that she should spend the rest of her life behind bars.
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A three-judge panel at the Supreme Court of Victoria delivered its ruling on Friday.
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The justices said that Patterson, who was convicted last year of murdering three of her estranged husband’s relatives with a meal laced with deadly mushrooms, should not have the chance of parole.
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survivor of deadly mushroom lunch testifies at Australian murder trial
- list 2 of 3Australian woman found guilty in mushroom murder trial
- list 3 of 3Erin Patterson guilty of Australian mushroom murders:
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“This offending was extraordinarily cold and calculated, and stands to be denounced in the strongest terms,” Justice Stephen McLeish, speaking on behalf of the panel, told the Melbourne court.
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“In all the circumstances, after anxious consideration, we have concluded that the case involved such shocking criminality that it is inappropriate to fix a non-parole period.”
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Patterson, then 51, was convicted for the murder of her mother-in-law and father-in-law, Gail and Donald Patterson, and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, by serving them a lunch of beef wellington laced with death cap mushrooms.
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She was also convicted of the attempted murder of Ian Wilkinson, Heather’s husband, who survived the meal.
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Her crimes involved an “elaborate series of deceptions” including falsely claiming a cancer diagnosis to explain the absence of her two children from the lunch, the judge noted.
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The survivor testified that Patterson had told her guests she wanted their advice about what to tell the children about her diagnosis.
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Patterson was sentenced to life in prison with a 33-year non-parole period, among the longest terms ever handed to a woman in Australia.
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She has always denied wrongdoing, saying the deaths were accidental.
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Her lawyers had argued that certain evidence should have been kept from the trial, that her cross-examination was unfair, and that placing the jury in the same hotel as other parties to the case compromised the result.
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Judges found these grounds for an appeal to be insufficient.
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She can apply to Australia’s High Court to overturn the verdicts on her sentence and her convictions.
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Patterson is only the second woman in Australia to be imprisoned for life without possibility of parole.
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The first is meatworker Katherine Knight, who was sentenced in New South Wales state in 2001 for the murder a year earlier of her partner John Price, whom she’d stabbed at least 37 times.
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