Article 6YFA1 Five key moments in the murder trial of Australia’s mushroom lunch cook Erin Patterson

Five key moments in the murder trial of Australia’s mushroom lunch cook Erin Patterson

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Adeshola Ore
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Over more than two months the court heard details of a meal of beef wellingtons that contained death cap mushrooms and killed three

The triple murder trial of Australia's mushroom lunch cook has attracted worldwide fascination and intense media attention for months.

After seven days of deliberations, a supreme court jury found Erin Patterson, 50, guilty of murdering her parents-in-law, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson, with poisoned beef wellingtons she served for lunch at her home in Leongatha, Victoria. She was also found guilty of attempting to murder the fourth lunch guest, Heather's husband, Ian Wilkinson.

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