Australia mushroom murderer Erin Patterson left me 'half alive', lone surviving victim says


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  • Monday, 25 Aug 2025

FILE PHOTO: Ian Wilkinson, the sole surviving guest from a fatal lunch served by Erin Patterson who is accused of murdering three of her estranged husband's elderly relatives with a meal laced with poisonous mushrooms, arrives at the Latrobe Valley Law Courts in Morwell, Australia, June 25, 2025. REUTERS/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/File Photo

SYDNEY (Reuters) -The lone surviving guest of a lunch where three others died after being served food laced with deadly mushrooms told an Australian court on Monday the actions of host and convicted murderer Erin Patterson had left him feeling "half alive".

Patterson was found guilty last month of luring her mother-in-law Gail Patterson, father-in-law Donald Patterson and Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson, to lunch at her home and poisoning them with individual portions of Beef Wellington that contained toxic death cap mushrooms.

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