Australia mushroom murderer Erin Patterson jailed for minimum of 33 years


  • World
  • Monday, 08 Sep 2025

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian womanconvicted of murdering three elderly relatives of her estranged husband with a meal containing poisonous mushrooms was sentenced to a minimum of 33 years in prison on Monday, in one of the longest jail terms ever given to a woman in the country.

The presiding judge said Erin Patterson showed no pity for her in-laws after she served them individual portions of Beef Wellington laced with death cap mushrooms.

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